One way to hold the word: every community has a way of doing things that its own people never have to think about. Speakers of a language reach for certain wordings without choosing them. Guitarists let their hands fall in certain shapes. Programmers in one language keep reaching for the same few moves. Idiomatic points at that settled house style — the version an insider would produce without effort. It never means correct; correctness is a different test, and something can pass it and still sound foreign.

可以想成:每個圈子都有一套自己人不必想的做法。講某個語言的人會自然選到某些說法。彈吉他的人的手會自然落在某些形狀上。寫某個程式語言的人會一再用同樣那幾招。idiomatic 指的就是這套已經定型的家常做法,也就是圈內人不費力就做得出來的那個版本。它從來不等於「正確」——正確是另一個標準,一樣東西可以完全正確,聽起來卻很外地。

From the word’s history

From Ancient Greek idíōma, one's own way of speaking, and idiōmatikós, relating to an idiom. The root already carries the idea of something belonging to a particular group and no one else.

來自希臘文 ἰδίωμα(idíōma,「自己的說法」)和 ἰδιωματικός(idiōmatikós,「和 idiom 有關的」)。字根裡就已經有「屬於某群人、別人沒有」的意思,這正是今天各種用法共同的底。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract) idiomatic: 'From Ancient Greek ἰδιωματικός (idiōmatikós, related to an idiom), from ἰδίωμα (idíōma, idiom).' source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:727419131

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