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noun

  • A form of expression or a manner of speaking natural to a native speaker, often characterized by phrases whose figurative meaning is not predictable from the literal definitions of its individual words.

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I was confident I was being scammed in some way but the idiomatic language and contextual knowledge of Westminster was unsettling.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024

Lopera pushes this novel’s idiomatic language into English and then Spanish, to bold and farcical effect.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2020

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  • native phrasing
  • insider speak
  • the way people really talk
  • folksy speech

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  • formal speech
  • robot talk
  • literal language
  • universal translator mode
  • prosaic language

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