Common expression
The crossword clue "Common expression" is answered by IDIOM, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
IDIOM
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDIOM answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for IDIOM
Every other clue in this collection answered by IDIOM, most used first.
- Figure of speech - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
- Dialect - used 34 times, most recently in 2021
- "Going to the dogs," e.g. - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Manner of speaking - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- "Talk turkey," e.g. - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
- Turn of phrase - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Translator's challenge - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Language quirk - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
- "Eat crow" or "talk turkey" - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Language peculiarity - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
- Jargon - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- "Cat got your tongue?" e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Dialect of a region - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Expression - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- "In the doghouse," e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Colloquialism - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Figurative expression - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Hard-to-translate phrase - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Non-literal expression - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Nonliteral expression - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Less common - RARER, used 151 times
- "Common Sense" author - PAINE, used 62 times
- Not as common - RARER, used 41 times
- Common contraction - ARENT, used 40 times
- "Common Sense" writer - PAINE, used 37 times
- Villain's expression - SNEER, used 31 times
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