Idiomatic Expression Quotes

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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.

Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.

You bet your Grannie's Panties I will.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

No means yes in grasshopper language.

You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart.” Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance.

Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.

Irish as a Paddy's pig.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

I think 'genius' is an overused word.

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.” “I have one,” she said, “but I don’t think it’s very good. Half the words are missing.” “Half?” “Well, some,” she amended. “But truly, that’s not the problem.” He blinked, waiting for her to continue. She did. Of course. “I don’t think Italian is the author’s native tongue,” she said. “The author of the dictionary?” he queried. “Yes. It’s not terribly idiomatic.

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words.