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compound", "four-character idiom", "four-character idiomatic phrase", and "four-character idiomatic compound". It is equivalent to the Chinese chengyu...

he found it necessary to introduce many neologisms, often connected to idiomatic words and phrases in the German language. (Ancient Greek: ἀλήθεια) Heidegger's...

question also occur at least seven times in the Latin Vulgate. When used idiomatically, in ordinary day-to-day language, the phrase usually is spoken or written...

suffering [comes] glory Motto of Rapha Cycling club ex facie from the face Idiomatically rendered "on the face of it". A legal term typically used to state that...

Spanish speaking nations and in regions and subcultures of each nation. Idiomatic expressions, particularly profanity, are not always directly translatable...

reported as, "The sad thing is that I leave with so much to say." Glossed idiomatically as "Make it quick" or "Get it over with." Also reported as, "God damn...

thought idiomatic is a matter of degree and native speakers of English consider a phrase like "pop the question" (proposing marriage) to be less idiomatic than...

Renaissance and early Baroque. Trilling on a single note is particularly idiomatic for the bowed strings. A mordent is a rapid alternation between an indicated...

Friend from Peniche (Portuguese: Amigo de Peniche) is an idiomatic expression from Portugal that refers to a disloyal friend who is not to be trusted...

versions are usually complete rings.[citation needed] In common modern idiomatic usage, a laurel wreath or "crown" refers to a victory. The expression...

Hebrew: גָּפְרִית וָאֵשׁ gofrīt wāʾēš, Ancient Greek: πῦρ καὶ θεῖον) is an idiomatic expression referring to God's wrath found in both the Old and New Testaments...

Elamite, and Babylonian. The term Rosetta stone has been also used idiomatically to denote the first crucial key in the process of decryption of encoded...

pinyin: chéngyǔ; trans. "set phrase") are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most of which consist of four Chinese characters. Chengyu...

of holes through the entire book. The term has come to have a second, idiomatic meaning of a bibliophile, who reads a great deal or to perceived excess:...

obsolete units of measurement survived in Russian culture in a number of idiomatic expressions and proverbs, for example: Слышно за версту: (It) can be heard...

(ෆලුඩා / ஃபலூடா) is often consumed as a popular dairy refereshment. In idiomatic Hindustani, faluda is sometimes used as a reference to something that...

Chinese idiomatic expressions, one finds the saying Chinese: 塞翁失馬，焉知非福. Sài wēng shī mǎ, yān zhī fēi fú The old man lost his horse, but it all turned out...

classifications of multi-word verbs and free combinations by criteria based on idiomaticity, replacement by a single-word verb, w-question formation and particle...

hang out, to put up with, etc. The phrasal verb frequently has a highly idiomatic meaning that is more specialised and restricted than what can be simply...

Bible in Contemporary Language (Navpress Publishing Group, 2002), an idiomatic paraphrasing commentary and translation of the Bible into modern American...