Sentence example with the word 'idioms'

idioms

Last update: July 21, 2015


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Perhaps the most interesting of these consonantal interchanges is that occurring between n and the sibilants sh and z; ner = slier; na=za, which by some scholars has been declared to be phonetically impossible, but its existence is well established between the modern Chinese colloquial idioms. For example, Pekingese then, Hakka nyin, Fuchow niing, Ningpo zhing and nying, WOnchow zang and Hang all =" man."   [Please select]

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I made myself a master of their idioms during my brief sojourn in--ah--in--well, never mind where.   [Please select]

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How affectionately they talked to one another in idioms all their own, saying "Hick."   [Please select]

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And sometimes he symbolically announces their ineffable idioms, but at other times he recurs to them from images, and discovers in them the primary causes of wholes.   [Please select]

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But the figures of the five elements, delivered in geometrical proportions in the Timaeus, represent in images the idioms of the gods who preside over the parts of the universe.   [Please select]

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