Turn of phrase
The crossword clue "Turn of phrase" is answered by IDIOM, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 8 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 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- Translator's challenge - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Language quirk - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
- Common expression - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- "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.
- Turn away - AVERT, used 104 times
- Turn inside out - EVERT, used 100 times
- Turn aside - AVERT, used 86 times
- Turn topsy-turvy - UPEND, used 60 times
- Turn outward - EVERT, used 53 times
- Turn out to be - ENDUP, used 43 times
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