It’s time to explore more strange idioms. An idiom has a few clustered words that create a meaning. It’s not a literal description. When those words are defined individually, the grouped meaning seems ...

Proper grammar is important, but sometimes grammar checkers and proofreading aren't enough. If you aren't sure about a preferred phrasing, try using Google to see what's popular. Over at Problogger, ...

I haven’t been hitting the sauce much lately, nor have I been any number of sheets to the wind. Call me old-fashioned, but I find that the best way not to keep the giggle juice flowing is not to buy ...

Some people take things literally. Kleptomaniacs take things, literally. Literalists aren’t fans of idioms. Idioms are phrases with figurative meanings; they aren’t intended to be taken literally.

The Media Observer, a digital publication of the Media Council of Kenya gives new meaning to the idiom: ‘The pot calling the kettle black’. There is no denying that once in a while, readers come ...

We have many idiomatic expressions involving the whole range of colours in English. In answering your question, Michal, we will have a look today at just three colours: red, white and blue (the ...

In a rather amusing blog post, Sanya "Tweety" Weathers, MMO community guru and Director of Community at GamerDNA, reflects on the etymology of the phrase "a slap in the face" (as in, "The devs are ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. I haven’t been hitting the sauce much lately, nor have I been any number of sheets to the wind. Call me old-fashioned, but I find that the best way not ...

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall when your boss heard he'd been fired. We use many animal idioms in English. Here are a selection of those involving both larger and smaller animals. How many of ...