Idiom Quotations

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

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

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

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

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

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom