Word: idiom
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...author's own experiences, is written with the sure touch of a skillful story-teller who deals with a theme he is fitted to handle with the unmistakable mark of sincerity. Although Mr. Gibbs has been living for some time in America, "Chances" is English to the last idiom of British slang. It belongs in the general category of novels that deal with the reserved, sensitive, pipe-smoking boys who were England's junior officers in France. Those readers who enjoy hearing about the boys "playing cricket" at the front line will be willing to take "Chances" with Mr. Gibbs...
Taking this idiom (comment vous portez-vous?: how do you carry yourself) literally, Papa twinkled, "Well, my children, if it weren't for the rheumatism in my legs I should carry myself very well...
...worked 14 hours a day. Besides his regular course, he took philosophy at Columbia. He also conducted a Bowery Mission, sometimes preaching nine times a Sunday to bums and toughs who needed strong, honest medicine. And he supported himself financially. Result: collapse, melancholia, gloom. It was, in evangelical idiom, the hand of God, for in later years thousands were to be rescued from despair by his sympathy. At least one man he indubitably saved from suicide. Development. Health regained, Harry Fosdick finished his last year at Union while serving as an assistant at Madison Avenue Baptist Church to Pastor George...
...Mild, somewhat poetic, this exceedingly simple book presents a vision of rabbit life as the Viennese author of Bambi sees it. As in Bambi, which was deer life poeticized, all the birds & beasts of the forest-and finally even the trees- converse freely together in a rather flat idiom, and the majority eat each other with relish and frequency. That, with the doings of sundry hunters, forms the background, foreground and action of the story...
Henri Cochet plays tennis as though the game were an argument couched in a difficult idiom which he alone had mastered. His placements have the brilliance, the finality of condescending epigrams. With such epigrams he might perhaps have punctured the crude bombast of Wilmer Allison's speedy serve last week, had he not flown over to Paris for Rene Lacoste's wedding to the French golf champion, Mile Simone Thion de la Chaume. When he returned to the centre court at Wimbledon, Cochet argued like a tired attorney. He won the first two games, but after that...