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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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'Full of beans' is an idiom which means lively and energetic.
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"To be on top of the world" is an idiom that means to be very happy.
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In Hollywood, white stars are adopting black idioms, dress styles and manners.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Coursework and examination questions are an idiom in themselves.
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Each language has its own phraseology, its own idiom which rules out many options that are potentially available as grammatical sequences.
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It is only the basic spiritual truths which surface time and again, expressed through different idioms.
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It takes on something of the character of an idiom .
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Oakeshott does not, however, adopt the Hobbesian idiom of social contract.
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Often the furore stemmed from audiences' unease at being plugged into a musical idiom shorn of familiar signposts.
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Photographs are, certainly, an idiom we are now all used to.
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When the text has been transcribed you work through it in order to discover and learn any new words or useful idioms.