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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...

(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";...

A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife; the wife of an adulterous husband is a cuckquean. In biology, a cuckold is a male who unwittingly invests...

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...

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...

American and Australian idiomatic expression, taken from the original English idiom "to put in my two-penny worth" or "put my tuppence in". The earliest reference...

Idiom Neutral is an international auxiliary language, published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language (Akademi Internasional...

Telengits or Telengut (Altay: Телеҥеттер) are a Turkic ethnic group belonging to minor indigenous peoples. They mainly live on the territory of the Kosh-Agach...

The Tubalars are an ethnic subgroup of the Altaians native to the Altai Republic in Russia. According to the 2010 census, there were 1,965 Tubalars in...

(pronounced [in ˈbokka al ˈluːpo]; lit. "into the wolf's mouth") is an Italian idiom originally used in opera and theatre to wish a performer good luck prior...

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Red flag" idiom – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2021) (Learn how and...

having major ramifications on opinion polling. A webcomic based on the idiom with the same name, The Tomato Can, launched on the webcomics platform WEBTOON...

prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Similar...

Idiom, also called idiomaticness or idiomaticity, is the syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language. Idiom is the realized structure...

Degree of difficulty (DD, sometimes called tariff or grade) is a concept used in several sports and other competitions to indicate the technical difficulty...

Crusoe, Friday was played by Tongayi Chirisa. The term Man Friday became an idiom to describe an especially faithful servant or one's best servant or right-hand...

An idiom dictionary is a dictionary or phrase book that lists and explains idioms – distinctive words or phrases having a figurative meaning that goes...

phrased as storm in a teacup (British English), or tempest in a teacup, is an idiom meaning a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion. There...

Sea change or sea-change is an English idiomatic expression that denotes a substantial change in perspective, especially one that affects a group or society...

Digor Ossetian (/ˈdɪɡər/; Ossetian: дигорон ӕвзаг, romanized: digoron ӕvzag pronounced [digɔːrɔːn ɐvzɑːg]) also known as Digor Ossetic or Digor-Ossetic...