idiom
idiom 英 [ˈɪdiəm] 美 [ˈɪdiəm]
n. 成语，习语
名词复数:idioms
- An idiom is a form of expression that is particular to a certain person or group of people. If your friend always says, "squirrelly nuteriffic!" when she means something is great, she's using her own idiom.
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- n. 成语，习语
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1. The idiom was overworn by my family.
在我们家这条成语都被用滥了。
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2. the classical idiom, the contemporary idiom, the popular idiom
古典╱当代╱通俗风格
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3. ‘Let the cat out of the bag’ is an idiom meaning to tell a secret by mistake.
“让猫从袋子里跑出来”是惯用语，意思是无意中泄露秘密。
- idiom (n.) 1580s, "form of speech peculiar to a people or place;" meaning "phrase or expression peculiar to a language" is from 1620s; from Middle French idiome (16c.) and directly from Late Latin idioma "a peculiarity in language," from Greek idioma "peculiarity, peculiar phraseology" (Fowler writes that "A manifestation of the peculiar" is "the closest possible translation of the Greek word"), from idioumai "to appropriate to oneself," from idios "personal, private," properly "particular to oneself."
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