Idiom

The fixed words of this idiom (in bold) do not form a constituent in any theory's analysis of syntactic structure because the object of the preposition (here this situation) is not part of the idiom (but rather it is an argument of the idiom).

The dependency grammar trees of a few sentences containing non-constituent idioms illustrate the point: :: Idiom trees 1' The fixed words of the idiom (in orange) in each case are linked together by dependencies; they form a catena.

The material that is outside of the idiom (in normal black script) is not part of the idiom.

If there were any doubts after his decades in the industry, proves Oswalt's is one of the greats and demonstrates that old idiom of storytelling -- the more personal you make it, the more universal it gets.

It used to be our preferred idiom, so to speak, when we set up in the public space, the mother tongue of our creative emotions.

This means that players will have to hear Elves largely speak the language in which they are playing the game rather than their original idiom.

Clearly, the culturally-layered tempted widely diverse performance companies to transmogrify its idiom, and this Yinglish version showed staying power in overlaying familiar songs from a G&S favorite.

For what it's worth, I would accept this new idiom.

The idiom “rules for thee, but not for me” sums it up succinctly.

The show also speaks in a true Gen Z idiom.

We can hope that our democracy too will express the idiom of that diversity, that beauty, that refusal to be just one that is sanatan dharma.

With this idiom in mind, the Boulder County Film Commission and the Boulder Area Chamber of Commerce have decided to team up for what feels like a local version of Steven Spielberg joining forces with George Lucas.

He ended by redeploying his unusual idiom in thanking Ritter.

Instead — and hinting toward Langston’s future — the group altered its approach radically, releasing Attack of the Mountain Medley, an EP in the folk idiom.

This idiom suits the slot users looking to try it for the long run.

Two key words in it, namely, toe and line, have been wrongly replaced, thereby inventing an untenable idiom of the writer’s fancy.

Actively seeking to engage new music and voices into the modern classical idiom, member-composers regularly contribute compositions and arrangements to the ensemble’s expanding repertoire.

But Springsteen strives to meet his chosen idiom more than halfway.

English idiom: what goes up must come down.

He won with British Idiom in the Juvenile Fillies on Friday.