a. (UN-1 7.)
1783. Gentl. Mag., LIII. May, 405–6. A man in these times cannot be intimate with his friend or neighbour; no; those halcyon days are all past: he now must live in habits with him: a most quaint and pedantic expression, and totally unidiomatic!
a. 1822. Shelley, Pr. Wks. (1888), I. 395. The clear, and exact, but unidiomatic phrases of their native language.
1855. Pusey, Doctr. Real Presence, 153. The interpretation of Bellarmin is inconsistent and unidiomatic.
1891. Driver, Introd. Lit. O. Test., 445. An author who … translated the Aramaic idiom … into unidiomatic Hebrew.
