He is familiar with the idioms and proverbs familiar to him in the daily life.
When highly familiar idioms encountered, their idiomatic meanings can be directly activated.
Research demonstrated that familiar idioms are processed quicker and more accurately than unfamiliar ones.
As the dual idiom representation model suggests, highly familiar idioms may lead to direct memory retrieval.
With great relief, Kelly lapsed into the more familiar idiom to relate the events of the past several weeks.
"Care to parse that into a familiar idiom, Commander?"
Several of the album's cuts carry familiar idioms in new directions.
To community members, it's a repository of familiar idioms and memories, the sound of home.
From a distance, they seem like familiar objects cast in the familiar idiom of architectural illustration.
Unlike the ensemble, she took a familiar idiom and redefined it into an unexpected dimension.