Idioms—phrases that come to mean more than each word's "literal meaning" on their own—have been a part of spoken language for a long time. They may change as the years go by and often vary from ...

Language is a curious thing. It's constantly changing, almost as if it’s alive. For every new word we create, an old word falls out of fashion and fades into obscurity. There are some words and ...

What do English speakers mean when they say 'time flies' or that they're 'in the nick of time'? Read on to discover commonly used idioms and phrases that relate to time. 'On time' is used to talk ...

Idioms use language metaphorically rather than literally. If you do something 'at the last minute' you do it almost as the deadline is approaching (the metaphorical meaning), you don't actually do it ...

Oh, boy, are we in for a storm of idioms this week. The thought occurred to me as I read the new second edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 512 pages, $15 ...