Bring it back next time you need to tell your friends it's time to leave the party. When was the last time someone reminded ...

Possibly he cohabited with Miss Bloggs, but don’t mention it in front of his wife, let the sleeping dogs lie.” Gordon Jarvie’s ‘Dictionary of Idioms’ contains that example of a warning that has been ...

The meeting with President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy may not have ...

The idiom, of course, is “off one’s own bat”, and hails from cricket, referring to the individual decision to run or not to ...

It’s one of the most common weather idioms. But what do lions and lambs even have to do with the month of March?

The idiom known as a big fish in a small pond explains a person who is important or powerful within a small group, but not necessarily known in a larger population. This is a good example of our local ...

The idiom also can be used to refer to an improving (or worsening) performance across all metrics for a particular stock or a portion of a national economy. The expression across the board ...

Go is a programming language built to resemble a simplified version of the C programming language. It compiles at the machine level. Go was created at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and ...

In the 2023 dance song “Stamp on It” by SM Entertainment’s subunit girl group GOT the Beat, the septet uses this idiom to encourage people to step up for what they believe in. Example ...

We examined whether older adults benefit from a larger mental-lexicon size and world knowledge to process idioms, one of few abilities that do not stop developing until later adulthood. Participants ...

Example: Marcus is so focused on product details that he can’t see the wood for the trees when it comes to the overall needs of the company. Meaning: In a predicament. Example: Ken was up a gum ...