Daily Quiz | On idioms On January 10 or thereabouts, 49 BC, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river – an act that purportedly began Caesar’s civil war and also entrenched an idiom in the English ...

The German artist has spent the last few years traveling back and forth between his native country and Los Angeles to launch his music career, but it’s been his grappling with English colloquial ...

‘A picture is worth a thousand words” sums up the essence of the free application English Idioms Illustrated. English Idioms Illustrated compiles phrases useful for people interested in learning the ...

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 ...

When someone says that something is not rocket science, it means it's not difficult. In other words, it's easy to do or understand. This idiom is probably inspired by the study of rocket science which ...

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 ...

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