idiom
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the style of a particular artist or school or movement“an imaginative orchestral idiom”artistic style
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a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a languageparlance
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an expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up“The English language is full of interesting idioms.”idiomatic expressionphrasal idiomset phrasephrase
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the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of peopleaccentdialect