- An
idiom is a
phrase or
expression that
largely or
exclusively carries a
figurative or non-literal meaning,
rather than
making any
literal sense. Categorized...
- Look up
Idiom or
idiom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An
idiom is an
expression with a
figurative meaning (not
deducible from the
individual words...
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Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a
Western Romance language of the Indo-European
language family originating from the
Iberian Peninsula...
- An
idiom is a
common word or
phrase with a figurative, non-literal
meaning that is
understood culturally and
differs from what its
composite words' denotations...
- not the only
idioms in Chinese, and not
always four
characters long, they are
often referred to as
Chinese idioms or four-character
idioms.
Chengyu are...
- (1981)
gives the full
phrase as "Drawing a red
herring across the path", an
idiom meaning "to
divert attention from the main
question by some side issue";...
- In
computer programming, a
programming idiom, code
idiom or
simply idiom is a code
fragment having a
semantic role
which recurs frequently across software...
- A
cuckold is the
husband of an
adulterous wife (or
partner for
unmarried companions); the wife of an
adulterous husband is a cuckquean. In biology, a cuckold...
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There are many
common idioms of improbability, or adynata, used to
denote that a
given event is
impossible or
extremely unlikely to occur. As a response...
- initialization-on-demand
holder (design pattern)
idiom is a lazy-loaded singleton. In all
versions of Java, the
idiom enables a safe,
highly concurrent lazy initialization...
