Idioms are not just 'sayings', these are phrases or expressions whose meaning cannot be understood from the literal definition of their individual words. These idioms have a figurative meaning that ...

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 ...

John in Albany, N.Y., had a question about something he heard in a TV commercial: “Dentures are different to real teeth.” The preposition struck him as odd. “I don’t recall ever hearing this ...

Pure idioms have a figurative meaning that cannot be deduced from the literal words, such as 'break a leg'. Binomial idioms are two-word phrases joined by a conjunction such as 'fish and chips'.