Category:English calques

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Entries in category “English calques”

The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.

A

  • Adam's apple

M

  • Milky Way

N

  • New Wave

U

  • U-boat

a

  • antibody

b

  • ball lightning
  • beer garden
  • blue blood
  • brainwash

c

  • commonplace
  • concertmaster

d

  • devil's advocate

e

  • earworm
  • eye for an eye

f

  • flamethrower
  • flea market
  • foreword
  • found object
  • free verse

g

  • go without saying
  • goat shit
  • gospel

i

  • in a nutshell
  • intelligence quotient

l

  • loan translation
  • loanword
  • long time no see
  • lose face

m

  • marriage of convenience
  • masterpiece
  • moment of truth
  • motorway

o

  • overman
  • overshadow

p

  • paper tiger
  • pineapple
  • power politics

r

  • rainforest

r cont.

  • rest in peace
  • rhinestone

s

  • scapegoat
  • seize the day
  • son-in-law egg
  • staircase wit
  • standpoint
  • stormtrooper
  • subliminal
  • superconductor
  • superego
  • superman

t

  • thought experiment

w

  • watershed
  • wisdom tooth
  • world war
  • worldview
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