Idioms Quotes

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.