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Meanings of own idiom in English
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Usage of own idiom in English
1
John did not altogether like his manner, which in his own idiom he styled "fresh."
2
A true national expression will come from the particular soil and will be unconscious of its own idiom.
3
They were, in our own idiom, cafés, where men met to sip coffee or chocolate and discuss current topics.
4
Thackeray's men and women talk as they might be expected to talk in life; each in his own idiom, class and idiosyncrasy.
5
As they passed some sent them a vulgar benediction; others obscene jests, and Schahabarim's man replied to each in his own idiom.
6
A succeeding effort was to master the living languages, and chiefly the English, that he might read his favourite Locke in his own idiom.
7
But I cannot help thinking that Sun Tzu meant to use the word in a figurative sense comparable to our own idiom "short and sharp."
8
Even the Indian languages of to-day are only combinations of their own idioms with this ancient tongue.