Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without any halt in its passage through the tube? By the substance of the tube itself, which is made of a porous material called celloidin. This is permeable to certain solids, among them mineral poisons, which it absorbs as the blood flows through ("Dializing out" is the stock laboratory idiom for this method of removing impurities). 3) How can substances necessary to the blood be prevented from escaping through the porous tube? They cannot be prevented, but identical substances in compensating amounts are dissolved in the surrounding solution so that the blood can lose nothing that it is desirable...
...because such power reestablishes in America a system of slavery with public ownership substituted for private ownership, and would place Congress in control of every home in the land between parent and child. State Representative McCorsey said much the same thing in more vigorous idiom: "I don't want any more monkeying with the buzz-saw by that bunch in Washington. We don't mix nohow. We weren't born under the same régime and don't drink out of the same bottle. We don't want them interfering with our affairs...
...Tower of Babel was something more than the first sky-scraper. It has gone down to posterity an everlasting symbol of the fatal consequences of idiom...
...which to overhear conversations, the bus top was the ideal place for garnering a store of epithets, tender and vituperative. That may be; but I am practically certain that with John Weaver it is largely a question of things heard on the run, of the seeping in of idiom, of a certain eager understanding of the way the ordinary mind works. I doubt the accuracy of his ex-pressions?but I am sure of the spirit of them?and, therefore, they are nearer right than any academicians' accurate transcription of dialogue could...
...there in italics harm no one and give the reader a good deal of innocent pleasure. French is the most accustomed seasoning. A good round French oath makes all the difference, particularly in a detective story. Arsene Lupin is nowhere so redoubtable as where he breaks into his native idiom. A good part of the art of translation consists in knowing when not to translate. The result is that practically any current translation from the French reads like a perfumery advertisement on a theatre program...