Being a linguist—and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue (Flemish Dutch)—I have an annoying habit: instead of paying attention to what ...

Top 10 Most Commonly Used English Idioms And Their Meanings: Idioms are phrases or expressions with a figurative meaning that differs from the literal meaning of the words used. They are often rooted ...

Fooling people is a universal trick. In English, we say “pulling a fast one” or “pulling the wool over someone’s eyes.” In German, you might say you’re “tying a bear on someone.” It seems like they’d ...

A picture is worth a thousand words, as the cliché goes, but not all words create the most precise pictures. A test your professor promises will be a “piece of cake” is great, unless you’re imagining ...

This article discusses how idioms often pose a challenge for second-language English learners. Idioms can be confusing and misinterpreted, even by students who score high on English proficiency tests.

In the table below, we have mentioned some of the important Idioms and Phrases with their meanings and sentences for SSC exam which were frequently asked in the exam. There are high chances that ...

The cat's out of the bag—idioms can be tricky, even for native English speakers. If you’re going to live in the United States or converse with English speakers, you’ll need to master our most commonly ...

Language changes fast, and new words and phrases are being created all the time. In this programme, Rob and Sam talk about some modern idioms – new expressions that have been introduced to English ...

English has changed a lot in the last several hundred years, and there are many words once used that we would no longer recognize today. For whatever reason, we started pronouncing them differently, ...