Meanings of native idiom in English

The native idiom, unheard for half a century, made her face shine under the tears.

His command of that language was not inferior to his command of his native idiom.

To Berthe, who waited on him, he spoke French fluently, but with a hardly native idiom and accent.

The other, sir, may be both charitably and accurately described in your native idiom as a daughter of joy.

Jose-Antonio Alvez and Coimbra spoke a kind of Portuguese mingled with a native idiom, which a native of Lisbon would scarcely have understood.

His mind was stored with quaint and pithy phrases, and apt illustrations, which he not unfrequently seasoned with his native idiom, the broad Barnsley dialect.

"The fraulein is to come often," says Freilgrath, lapsing into his native idiom.

"I prefer the native idiom," was the correction.

He had repaired it with large patches of French, with words anglicized by a process of his own, and with native idioms literally translated.