Top 10 Most Commonly Used English Idioms And Their Meanings: Idioms are phrases or expressions with a figurative meaning that ...

Being a linguist—and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue ...

We have all heard of these ‘English is a funny language’ jokes, which provide a long list of the oddities and quirks of the language. These jokes typically focus on spelling inconsistencies, ...

One story behind the idiom akinasu wa yome ni kuwasuna (秋茄子は嫁に食わすな)—meaning “don’t allow yourself to be taken advantage of”—is that eggplants are particularly good in the fall season, and so such a ...

Vijay Hashia [email protected] Why do English speakers “bite the bullet,” when they are not anywhere near a battlefield ...

People occasionally complain to me that so many today seem to lean on profanity rather than utilizing the other lexical resources at their disposal. “Why do they have to keep using that word over and ...

From phrases like ‘Bob’s your uncle’ to ‘swings and roundabouts’, British English is full of sayings and expressions that appear to make little sense. But for refugees and asylum seekers arriving in ...

While we wouldn’t think twice about using expressions like “hitting the nail on the head” in a business setting (even if some of our colleagues really hate them), they might sound a bit odd to a ...