id·i·om
n
  1. fixed expression with nonliteral meaning: a fixed, distinctive, and often colorful expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the combined meanings of its individual words, for example, “to have somebody in stitches”
  2. natural way of using a language: the way of using a particular language that comes naturally to its native speakers and involves both knowledge of its grammar and familiarity with its usage
  3. stylistic expression of person or group: the style of expression of a specific individual or group
  4. subidiomatic expressions act as facilitators of expression or linguistic shortcuts. These expressions are usually based on modifiers and may have co-occurring parts of speech. A subidiom's sense limited and is homologous to the sense of the modifier or the part with which it occurs

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

"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..."
"There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."

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