Crossword-Solution: IDIOMS 6 letters, 86 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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IDIOMS anagram IDOISM, IODISM

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Everyday expressions 1 answer
Nonliteral language features 1 answer
Many long crossword answers 1 answer
Make a scene and act up 1 answer
Locutions 1 answer
Lesson for an advanced language learner 1 answer
Language quirks 1 answer
Language learner's challenges 1 answer
Hurdles for language learners 1 answer
Hot potatoes and cold fish? 1 answer
Hits the books and rings a bell 1 answer
Nonliteral phrases 1 answer
Eat crow and talk turkey, e.g. 1 answer
ESL students' challenges 1 answer
ESL bafflers 1 answer
Double-crossed and half-baked 1 answer
Distinct styles 1 answer
Dialects of regions 1 answer
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Curry favor and crack a joke, e.g. 1 answer
Contents of some dictionaries 1 answer
Subject in foreign language class 1 answer
Turns of phrase 1 answer
Translator's challenges 1 answer
They're seldom taken literally 1 answer
They're not to be taken literally 1 answer
They're not meant literally 1 answer
They're not literal 1 answer
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They trip up foreigners 1 answer
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The bee's knees and the cat's meow 1 answer
Conversational expressions. 1 answer
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Some long crossword answers 1 answer
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Set phrases. 1 answer
See red, talk a blue streak, etc. 1 answer
Regional dialects 1 answer
Potential trouble for Google Translate 1 answer
Pecularities of language. 1 answer
Out to lunch and having a bite 1 answer
"Green thumb" and "bluenose" 1 answer
"Out of the blue" and "in the red" 1 answer
"Like herding cats" and "sick as a dog" 1 answer
"Hit the sack" and "hit the books," e.g. 1 answer
"Head over heels" and "hand over fist" 1 answer
"Hang your head" and "eating crow" 1 answer
"Hands down" and "eating crow," for two 1 answer
"Hands down" and "cold feet" 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IDIOMS (5)

Occasionally they develop idioms in their English usage that are influenced by their native-language styles.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Book English has gone round the world, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or verbal.
Memories and Portraits Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
There was an English maid in the hotel, who had been long enough out of England to pick up all sorts of funny foreign idioms, and all sorts of curious foreign ways, which need not here be specified.
An Inland Voyage Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
Don Joze d'Azveto had been educated in England, in which country he passed his boyhood, which to a certain degree accounted for his proficiency in the English language, the idioms and pronunciation of which can only be acquired by a residence in the country at that period of one's life.
Letters of George Borrow George Borrow 2007
Oftentimes we have to endure barbarous interpreters, and those who are ignorant of foreign idioms presume to translate us from one language into another; and thus all propriety of speech is lost and our sense is shamefully mutilated contrary to the meaning of the author! Truly noble would have been the condition of books if it had not been for the presumption of the tower of Babel, if but one kind of speech had been transmitted by the whole human race.
The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury Richard de Bury 1996

Quotes with IDIOMS (3)

I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)
Jodi Picoult House Rules
The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands — it was a composite of all the sprawling regions of the country. A language which sounded Southern to Southerners, Western to Westerners. It was the talk of the soil and its drawl covered the agility of the brains that poured it out. It was a soothing, illiterate, earthy language.
William Lindsay Gresham Nightmare Alley
Then why do they come?” Buonarroti shrugged his shoulders.“Because things are in such a bad way in their homeland, they’re ready to flee into a black hole in space, to a concentration camp, to the Sargasso Sea of international criminal brigands.”“Between the devil and the deep blue sea,” said the new consul, demonstrating his knowledge of international idioms.
Vladimir Lorchenkov The Good Life Elsewhere
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 94 times in crossword archives (1958–2025).