By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.

The idiom to carry a torch ( for someone ) means to love or to be romantically infatuated with someone, especially when such feelings are not reciprocated.

" This idiom in turn means that the person is left in their former condition rather than being assisted so that their condition improves.

"( With ) a grain of salt ," in modern English, is an idiom which means to view something with skepticism, or to not take it literally.

The idiom tickled pink means to be pleased or delighted.

In the introduction, he rigorously denounced the idiom " war is a continuation of policy by other means ", rejecting on its face " Clausewitzian " ideas.

In the German language, the idiom " sich in die Nesseln setzen ", or to sit in nettles, means to get into trouble.

In Hungarian, the idiom " csalánba nem üt a mennykő " ( no lightning strikes the nettle ) means bad things never happen to bad people.

A " slap in the face " is a common idiom, dating back to the late 1800s, that means to rebuke, rebuff or insult.

There is an idiom in Chinese that specifically describes these qualities of Wu speech: Wú nóng ruǎn yǔ ( 吴侬软语 ), which literally means " the tender speech of Wu.

The English idiom over a barrel means to be in a predicament or helpless in a situation where others are in control: " I have no choice in the matter — my creditors have me over a barrel.

Peng linguistically symbolizes " greatness ; great promise ; great accomplishments "; for instance, the idiom pengchengwanli ( 鵬程萬里, literally, Peng journeys 10, 000 li ) means " have a bright / unlimited future ".

It was understood that the changes effectively resulted in the creation of a new language, which was named “ Idiom Neutral ” ( which means “ the neutral idiom ” or “ the neutral language ”).

The English idiom to chew the fat means to chat casually, but thoroughly, about subjects of mutual interest.

The typically masculine Japanese idiom fundoshi o shimete kakaru ( tighten your loincloth ) means the same as the English phrase " roll up your sleeves " — in other words, get ready for some hard work.

In this period, for the first time appears in official documents the name Renne, it means Kingdom in the old French language ( idiom of the Normans in Southern Italy in that period ).

In Korean, the idiom " 잘 가다가 삼천포로 빠진다 ," literally " Was going well but suddenly slips into Samcheonpo ," means that a speaker has gone off-topic.

Flogging a dead horse ( alternatively beating a dead horse in some parts of the Anglophone world ) is an idiom that means a particular request or line of conversation is already foreclosed or otherwise resolved, and any attempt to continue it is futile ; or that to continue in any endeavour ( physical, mental, etc.

The name of the film in Spanish is an intentional pun: abrazo means " embrace " and does not make sense followed by partido " broken " or " gone ," but the idiom a brazo partido, literally " with a broken arm ," means " to fight forcefully, strenuously.

How this town acquired the name “ Guinobatan ” can be drawn from the word “ Gubat ” which in its substantive form in the Bicol idiom means barren and uncultivated.

By means of his excellent grammars, dictionary, and various works on German style, he contributed greatly towards rectifying the orthography, refining the idiom, and fixing the standard of his native tongue.

What we typically mean by cause in the modern scientific idiom is only a narrow part of what Aristotle means by efficient cause.

The idiom '( land oneself ) in the doghouse ' means ( become ) out of favour and in trouble with a person / people because of an offence / caused upset, for example of a husband who is figuratively sent to the doghouse in the same way that a dog is removed from the human habitation.

Some have responded to the proponents of this view of the Moloch sacrifices ( being only a ritualized " pass between flame ") by pointing out their failure to understand the Hebrew idiom le ha ' avir ba ' esh to imply " to burn " and their use of anthropological evidence of suspect relevance to draw parallels to early Hebrew religious practices.

France disagrees feeling that " until heaven and earth pass away " is simply an idiom for the inconceivable.

Nevertheless, the Demoiselles is the logical picture to take as the starting point for Cubism, because it marks the birth of a new pictorial idiom, because in it Picasso violently overturned established conventions and because all that followed grew out of it.

Strauss turned to a more conservative idiom in his own work after 1909 and at that point dismissed Schoenberg.

From this point on, he began signing his poems with the name Sōseki, which is a Chinese idiom meaning " stubborn ".

Crosby at this point in his career was still singing in a jazz idiom, transitioning to his better known " crooner " style.

A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass with water at the halfway point, where the optimist is said to see the glass as half full, but the pessimist sees the glass as half empty.

The content, grammar, syntax, style, and the use of Attic and Patristic Greek terms, idiom, and structures, all point to the writer being someone intimately familiar with the Old Testament rituals, and solidly educated in Greek.

The use of the Damon-and-Pythias idiom would seem to indicate that, whether the difference was on a point of science or something else, it was not " only " some trivial difference.

It is one of Liszt's most haunting and at the same time one of his most experimental works, representing, according to Allen Forte, " a high point in the experimental idiom with respect to expressive compositional procedure.

They can get around Sextus ' problem of the criterion because there is no infinite regress or circle of reasoning, because the buck stops with ( see also idiom ) the principles of common sense.

In Eclogues 1 and 9, Virgil indeed dramatizes the contrasting feelings caused by the brutality of the land expropriations through pastoral idiom, but offers no indisputable evidence of the supposed biographic incident.

Illegal immigration continued, but many of the men had few prospects in war weary Fujian and thus married locally, resulting in the idiom " Tangshan ( Chinese ) grandfather no Tangshan grandmother " ( 有公無唐山媽 ).

" Paul Dukas ' The Sorcerer's Apprentice follows the narrative vein of symphonic poem, while Maurice Ravel's La Valse ( 1921 ) is considered by some critics a parody of Vienna in an idiom no Viennese would recognize as his own.

The very height of the small sword's widespread popularity was ( as mentioned above ) between the middle of the 17th and the late 18th century, when it was considerd fashionable by aristocrates (" no gentleman was dressed without his sword "-contemporary idiom of the middle of the 18th century ), but it was still used as a dueling weapon until the middle of the 20th century.

The theory of constraints ( TOC ) adopts the common idiom " A chain is no stronger than its weakest link " as a new management paradigm.

" Professor Brians writes that a common source of confusion about this idiom stems from the verb to have which in this case indicates that once eaten, keeping possession of the cake is no longer possible, seeing that it is in your stomach ( and no longer exists as a cake ).

The name of the story has become an idiom in Japan, used to signify a situation where no conclusion can be drawn, because evidence is insufficient or contradictory.

The English language idiom " it is raining cats and dogs ", referring to a heavy downpour, is of uncertain etymology, and there is no evidence that it has any connection to the " raining animals " phenomenon.

Along with his rendering of " Jew and Gentile " as " white man and Negro ," Jordan converted all references to " crucifixion " into references to " lynching ," believing that no other term was adequate for conveying the sense of the event into a modern American idiom:

* Nacht und Nebel — " night and fog "; code for some prisoners that were to be disposed of, leaving no traces ; bei Nacht und Nebel ( idiom ) — secretly and surprisingly, at dead of night.

( Although both linguistics and logic lay claim to providing theories of natural language, according to Geach, logic generally ignores the " idiotism of idiom ", and sees natural languages as cluttered with idioms of no logical interest.

The compositional ideal which he maintained was the style of Palestrina, though curiously he maintained that the " rules " of counterpoint were made to be broken, and should be abandoned as soon as a composer had learned his craft: paradoxically, even in the 21st century, no style of composition is taught in a more rigorous, rule-based way than the polyphonic idiom of Palestrina.

However, the algorithm was already in use in other languages ( under no specific name ) before it was popularized among the Perl community in the form of that particular idiom by Schwartz.

Asola was a rare case of a composer working in Venice who showed almost no stylistic influence from the Venetian school ; indeed most of his works are in the Palestrina style, the idiom of the Roman School of composers.

These coinages may be based on a model from the speaker ’ s own idiom, on a model from a foreign idiom, or, in the case of root creations, on no model at all.

It has sometimes been classified separately as Rohilkhandi, but there is really no marked distinction in idiom or vocabulary between this and Hindustani.