Idiom Quotations

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture.

Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

Idiom is larger than geography; it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.