(american idiom)
1idiom — noun /ˈɪd.i.əm/ a) A manner of speaking, a way of expressing oneself. You’re history, we say . Surely it is an American idiom. Impossible to imagine a postwar European saying, “You’re history. . . . That’s history,” meaning fuhgeddaboudit, pal.… …
2American English — 1. general. Fowler in Modern English Usage (1926) did not include an entry on American English and said little on the subject, although he cast occasional aspersions on so called ‘undesirable aliens’ (such as belittle). Since then attitudes to… …
3Idiom — This article is about phrases with figurative meaning. For other uses, see Idiom (disambiguation). Idiom (Latin: idioma, special property , f. Greek: ἰδίωμα – idiōma, special feature, special phrasing , f. Greek: ἴδιος – idios, one’s own ) is an… …
4American (word) — Use of the word American in the English language differs according to the historic, geographic, and political context in which it is used. It derives from America , a term originally denoting all of the New World (also the Americas), and its… …
5American and British English differences — For the Wikipedia editing policy on use of regional variants in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of style#National varieties of English. This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which …
6American Indian languages — Languages spoken by the original inhabitants of the Americas and the West Indies and by their modern descendants. They display an extraordinary structural range, and no attempt to unite them into a small number of genetic groupings has won… …
7American English — /əˌmɛrɪkən ˈɪŋglɪʃ/ (say uh.merikuhn ingglish) noun 1. the English language as used in the United States, including all varieties whether regional or social. Compare Black English. 2. the major dialects of the English language broadly identified… …
8idiom — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. dialect; language; idiotism, phrase. See speech. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. expression, colloquialism, language, vernacular; see dialect , jargon 2 , 3 , language 1 , phrase . III (Roget s 3… …
9Profanity in American Sign Language — American Sign Language (ASL) the sign language used by the Deaf Community throughout most of North America, has a rich vocabulary of terms which include profanity. Within Deaf culture, there is a distinction drawn between signs used to curse… …
10Profanity in American sign language — American Sign Language, the sign language used by the Deaf Community throughout most of North America, has a rich vocabulary of terms which include profanity. Within Deaf culture, there is a distinction drawn between signs used to curse versus… …
