How to Use idiom in a Sentence

idiom

noun

• The expression “give way,” meaning “retreat,” is an idiom.
• Where there's a will, there's a way--as true as any idiom could be.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
• But nobody's quite been able to write the script that does it in the modern idiom.
  — Dominic Corry, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• English has lots of bill idioms, but the bills involved are not the same.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2023
• Love and Trouble is like the town pump of memoir idioms.
  — Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• The Rams will put the age-old idiom about the third time being the charm to the test against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
  — Adam Burke Vsin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• For Amazon, the move to get out in front of the herd, to use Bezos’s chosen idiom, makes sense.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 20 Sep. 2019
• For him, the impact of a work of art was bound to an artist’s discovery of his own idiom and vision of the world.
  — Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• This idiom dates back 200 years to when people hunted with packs of dogs.
  — Marylou Tousignant, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
• To mangle an idiom: Why expose a gift horse with your mouth?
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
• But obviously, there are plenty of fish (the idiom, not the app).
  — Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire, 20 Oct. 2021
• To vary an old idiom: if only an ounce of compassion could be worth a pound of cure.
  — Longreads, 7 June 2024
• It’s not the voice of the people, but a low-down idiom intended to sell certain class values.
  — Armond White, National Review, 3 Aug. 2022
• At this, Beatriz warms up to Witold, someone who, among other things, does not speak the idiom of the bourgeoise.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Jazz may be the most macho music idiom of them all, too macho at times for my tastes.
  — Ted Gioia, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
• And, perhaps hidden in all those cards, a few senses or idioms to add.
  — Kory Stamper, Slate Magazine, 14 Mar. 2017
• A few days ago, a friend taught me a Spanish idiom: vergüenza ajena.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2020
• Out of step, but useful Pro-mom language is sometimes, in the old idiom, the velvet glove hiding the iron fist.
  — Shauna Shames, The Conversation, 19 Sep. 2023
• Just a few idioms belittle height, such as having your head in the clouds or looking down your nose.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland, 3 Jan. 2020
• The idiom’s hoist is the past tense of an older verb that is now obsolete: hoise (sometimes spelled and pronounced hyse).
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2021
• But there was something compellingly true about his simple idiom that has stuck with me over the years.
  — Michael McMullen, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• Just for clarity — both ‘burying the hatchet’ and ‘off the table’ are idioms.
  — miamiherald, 19 Aug. 2017
• No sailor wants to fall into the water, but the timeless idiom might better have been amended to sail or sink when David Wood got his start in the sport.
  — Andrew Turner, Daily Pilot, 17 July 2019
• The idiom has a loose adaptation for the SMU football team Saturday.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
• This holds true by Jay-Z’s standards and those of the musical idiom synonymous with his name.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• And then there’s the elephant in the room — perhaps something bigger than an elephant may be needed in this idiom.
  — Tony East, Forbes, 5 June 2021
• Choose a play on words or an idiom related to the room's function for a floor that displays wit and charm to anyone who enters.
  — Laura Lambert, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Nov. 2022
• Various jazz languages have emerged since Parker’s death, yet his idiom flourishes at the heart of the best of them.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• The expression is a popular idiom in Korea and simply means that something is just a stone’s throw away.
  — Regina Kim, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• Dunham became, in time, a kind of spiritual mother to him—a forerunner in his fight to establish a school where Black dance idioms could be studied.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024