This idiomatic expression may have been in general use much earlier than 1959.

See Letter and spirit of the law for the idiomatic expression.

It was an American idiomatic expression in the 19th and 20th centuries.

"Isn't it nice that I don't have to explain every idiomatic expression?"

Students experience culture through music, art, games, idiomatic expressions, movies, and food.

The film's title has entered the English language as an idiomatic expression.

There are estimated to be at least 25,000 idiomatic expressions in the English language.

This, of course, was not a physical threat, but only an idiomatic expression that shouldn't be taken literally.

Q. Idiomatic expressions must be a challenge to the refugees.

I know there is an idiomatic expression for events powerful enough to stop clocks.

The meaning and intent of the English idiomatic expression is sometimes presented in different terms.

The 12-hour clock is used in the spoken language and idiomatic expressions.

This idiomatic expression has proven to be quite durable into the 21st century.

The idiomatic expression also applies to an obvious problem or risk no one wants to discuss.

Plus, this zone has a lot of own idiomatic expressions not used elsewhere in the country.

His idiomatic expressions are a few degrees shy of a full compass.

It is hard to deal with rule interactions in big systems, ambiguity, and idiomatic expressions.

This phrase is an English idiomatic expression which implies physical destruction.

Most proponents of the principle, however, make certain exceptions for idiomatic expressions in natural language.

Canadian raising can also apply across word boundaries in idiomatic expressions.

Since individual words do not matter in an idiomatic expression, they are thought to be processed together as one entity during comprehension.

Modern Hebrew also contains an idiomatic expression of precisely identical meaning.

"Toe the line" is an idiomatic expression meaning to conform to a rule or a standard.

Most younger people (those born since the 1970s) know little more than a few idiomatic expressions, often profanities.

His writing contains idiomatic expressions, neologisms, words taken from many languages.