idiom
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- n a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
- n the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
- n the style of a particular artist or school or movement
an imaginative orchestral idiom - n an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
- The term itself can be merely descriptive or mildly offensive, depending on the user and the hearer; at any rate, it has become part of the American idiom.
- Airing three times a week, it spawned idioms ("Don't blow your jets!") and dozens of Tom Corbett products.
- It has been the diversion of certain modernist critics to write about music in terms of color, painting in the idiom of sound.