Idiom has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | I foolishly interpreted the idiom according to its literal sense. | |
| 2. | "Time is gold" a true idiom. | |
| 3. | It's an idiom. You don't have to understand its literal meaning. | |
| 4. | Goethe used this idiom. Why, then, should it be incorrect today? | |
| 5. | The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love. | |
| 6. | It's an idiom. | |
| 7. | It's a common idiom. | |
| 8. | I'm sorry, sir, but, "Your donkey is on fire," is not an idiom in any language. | |
| 9. | It's a very common idiom in my neighborhood. | |
| 10. | The expression “as for the story, the partridge landed on it” is actually a very old idiom, which is used in connection with someone who has committed a crime; when you ask him about it, he doesn't even answer you! We then say that the partridge (or the hen) has landed on it. |