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 ...

Jan. 14-20 is Idiom Week, and today we thought we’d have a heart-to-heart about some strange phrases we use. Idioms, metaphors and similes are all types of figurative language. According to ...

Our common speech is littered with food-derived aphorisms, metaphors, and other figures of speech. Some, like “wolfing down a meal” and “that guy’s a vegetable,” are rather obvious, but there are ...