Answer: IDIOMS
IDIOMS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 49 times.
Referring Clues:
- Some dictionary entries
- Hurdles for language learners
- "Hands down" and "cold feet"
- Subject in foreign language class
- See red, talk a blue streak, etc.
- They're seldom taken literally
- "Green thumb" and "bluenose"
- "Shake a leg" and "break a leg"
- "Elbow grease" and "head honcho"
- They're hard to translate
- Language learner's challenges
- They're not to be taken literally
- Out to lunch and having a bite
- Cold feet and hot air
- Everyday expressions
- Manners of speaking
- "Hands down" and "eating crow," for two
- Figures of speech
- Linguistic peculiarities
- ESL bafflers
- "Hands down" and "Talk turkey"
- Hot potatoes and cold fish?
- "Crack a joke" and "cut corners," e.g.
- Quirks of languages
- "Eat crow" and "talk turkey"
- Blue-collar and pink-slip
- They're not literal
- "Seeing red" and "Going green"
- "Break a leg" and "running on empty"
- "Rat race" or "cash cow"
- Make a scene and act up
- Turns of phrase
- Colorful phrases
- "Chew the fat" and "eat crow"
- Set phrases
- They're not meant literally
- "Tickled pink" and "in the red"
- Nonliteral phrases
- Nonliteral language features
- Lesson for an advanced language learner
- Double-crossed and half-baked
- Hits the books and rings a bell
- "Sell like hotcakes" and "call it a day," for example
- "break the ice" and "on thin ice," for two
- The bee's knees and the cat's meow
- "Play it by ear" and "all ears," e.g.
- Cold feet and cold shoulder, for two
- Contents of some dictionaries
- Phrases that don't translate well
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - May 11, 2025
- LA Times - October 21, 2024
- New York Times - April 26, 2024
- New York Times - March 03, 2024
- New York Times - October 17, 2023
- LA Times - August 13, 2023
- USA Today - October 21, 2022
- LA Times - September 09, 2022
- New York Times - October 10, 2021
- New York Times - September 24, 2021
- LA Times - June 22, 2021
- Netword - March 12, 2020
- USA Today - November 22, 2019
- LA Times - July 24, 2019
- LA Times - March 19, 2019
- USA Today - October 24, 2018
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 11, 2018
- Netword - June 24, 2018
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - May 06, 2018
- LA Times - February 08, 2018
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