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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.