Idioms usually do not translate well ; in some cases, when an idiom is translated directly word-for-word into another language, either its meaning is changed or it is meaningless.

* Idioms in the Bible Explained ; and, A Key to the Original Gospel.

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The earliest origins of the system are found in a small vocabulary first printed in 1820 by Walter Henry Medhurst, who went on to publish the Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language, According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms in 1832.

* George F. Luger, William A. Stubblefield: AI Algorithms, Data Structures, and Idioms in Prolog, Lisp and Java, Addison Wesley, 2008, ISBN 0-13-607047-7, PDF

Idioms are numerous and they occur frequently in all languages.

Idioms such as the ones here are very numerous in all languages and they occur in many different forms.

Idioms are lexical items, which means they are stored as catenae in the lexicon.

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* Today's English Idioms at GoEnglish. com

::"... the term phrasal verb was first used by Logan Pearsall Smith, in Words and Idioms ( 1925 ), in which he states that the OED Editor Henry Bradley suggested the term to him.

* Stuart Dempster's The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms, ISBN 0-520-03252-7.

In 1979 the University of California Press published his book, The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms.

With Words and Idioms he became a recognised authority on the correct use of English.

Idioms and clichés are suddenly manifesting themselves quite literally, and it falls to the player, as it always does, to sort things out.

Idioms and Fixed Expressions in English Language Study before 1800.

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Twentieth Century Music Idioms, p. 2.

Twentieth Century Music Idioms.

Twentieth Century Music Idioms.

Twentieth Century Music Idioms.

Twentieth Century Music Idioms.

TV-guides tend to list nightly programs at the previous day, although programming a VCR requires the strict logic of starting the new day at 00: 00 ( to further confuse the issue, VCRs set to the 12-hour clock notation will label this " 12: 00 AM ").

* Speakers tend to confuse and both in perception and production, since the Japanese language does not make such a distinction.

Parties on the right often confuse social security and welfare schemes as the problem ; however we tend to look at why they are struggling.

They tend to confuse greens and blues, and yellow can appear pink.

When the Hopfield model does not recall the right pattern, it is possible that an intrusion has taken place, since semantically related items tend to confuse the individual, and recollection of the wrong pattern occurs.

And, as the others began to crawl out from beneath the desks and tend to those wounded, and mark the several killed, he climbed across the debris to Penny and took her hand in his.

In other words, as students go through college, those who are most successful academically tend to become more committed to a `` Bill of Rights '' orientation.

It suggests that during the next several months, through the spring of 1961, the demand for long-term capital funds may be moderately lower and that interest rates may tend to move a little lower, especially the rates on Federal, state, and local bonds, as well as those on publicly offered corporate bonds.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

Isotopes that are lighter than the stable < sup > 123 </ sup > Sb tend to decay by β < sup >+</ sup > decay, and those that are heavier tend to decay by β < sup >-</ sup > decay, with some exceptions.

Differences between the two include pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary ( lexis ), spelling, punctuation, idioms, formatting of dates and numbers, although the differences in written and most spoken grammar structure tend to be much less than those of other aspects of the language in terms of mutual intelligibility.

51. 8 % of the Government's revenue comes directly from licence fees for offshore companies, and considerable further sums are raised directly or indirectly from payroll taxes relating to salaries paid within the trust industry sector ( which tend to be higher on average than those paid in the tourism sector ).

Protracted symptoms tend to resemble those seen during the first couple of months of withdrawal but usually are of a sub acute level of severity.

Those used in sports tend to be of a lighter weight than those used in commercial applications and rope rescue.

Coyote tracks tend to be more oval-shaped and compact than those of domestic dogs, and their claw marks are less prominent and the tracks tend to follow a straight line more closely than those of dogs.

Wolves in central Europe tend to be more richly coloured than those in Northern Europe.

It is thought that mammals which can sleep in hiding, such as rodents and bats, tend to sleep longer than those that must remain on alert.

Carotenes are also found in palm oil, corn, and in the milk of dairy cows, causing cow's milk to be light yellow, depending on the feed of the cattle, and the amount of fat in the milk ( high-fat milks, such as those produced by Guernsey cows, tend to be more yellow because their fat content causes them to contain more carotene ).

In A Critique of Postcolonial Reason ( 1999 ), Spivak explored how major works of European metaphysics ( such as those of Kant and Hegel ) not only tend to exclude the subaltern from their discussions, but actively prevent non-Europeans from occupying positions as fully human subjects.

Said more simply, areas with a higher density and repetition of atom order tend to reflect more light toward one point in space when compared to those areas with fewer atoms and less repetition.

The least stable is < sup > 138 </ sup > Dy with a half-life of 200 ms. Isotopes that are lighter than the stable isotopes tend to decay primarily by β < sup >+</ sup > decay, while those that are heavier tend to decay by β < sup >−</ sup > decay, with some exceptions.

In addition, those German prepositions that require the genitive in formal language, tend to be used with the dative in contemporary colloquial German ; for example, " because of the weather " is often expressed as " wegen dem Wetter " instead of the formally correct " wegen des Wetters ".

Much of what is known of Allen's captivity is known only from his own account of the time ; where contemporary records are available, they tend to confirm those aspects of his story.

Sediments containing more clay tend to be more resistant to erosion than those with sand or silt, because the clay helps bind soil particles together.

People who believe in psi (" sheep ") tend to score above chance, while those who do not believe in psi (" goats ") show null results or psi-missing.