"Contemporary idiom" refers to the words, phrases, and expressions that are currently used by people in modern society. It captures the language, slang, and style of communication that is common in the present time. Full definition
The exhibition explores contemporary idioms in abstraction at the same time as alluding to some of the formative influences on the six artists who form the focus of the exhibition. (aliceneel.com)
This generates the assumption — which I take to be very misleading — that contemporary theological proposals ought somehow to be translations of the «meant» into contemporary idiom — translations that convey over the ugly ditch of long history the same self - identical «meaning.» (religion-online.org)
In the process, she places them in a more contemporary idiom, and that, too, is part of their immediacy. (haberarts.com)