名词
1. (音乐、舞蹈、建筑的)风格,特色
A particular idiom is a particular style of something such as music, dance, or architecture.
2. 习语;成语
An idiom is a group of words which have a different meaning when used together from the one they would have if you took the meaning of each word separately.
3. 方言;土语
Idiom of a particular kind is the language that people use at a particular time or in a particular place.
1. the style of a particular artist or school or movement
e.g. an imaginative orchestral idiom
Synonym: artistic style
2. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
Synonym: parlance
3. an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
Synonym: idiomatic expressionphrasal idiomset phrasephrase
4. the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
e.g. the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
he has a strong German accent
it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy