#idiom

I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now-" "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#idiom #muggles #ron-weasley #telephone #prison

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. ↗

— Eric Zorn

#common #idioms #notwithstanding #only #save

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#crushed #describe #down #elite #highly

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#desire #i #i do #i think #idioms

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ↗

— George Will

#becomes #idiom #language #nation #noise

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#idiom #optimism #humor

There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was "Give me the fuckin money". ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#humor #idiom #mafia #mob #movie-business

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#i #i do #idioms #make #rhythms

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you. ↗