no ifs and buts said if you don't want to argue with someone and you want them to do what you told them to do Mother: Turn ...

If you have 'a sweet tooth' it means you like eating chocolate and other sweet things, not that you have a tooth that's made ...

For native speakers of a language, idioms can capture just the right nuance of a particular situation. But for those who aren't intimately familiar with that language and culture, idioms often sound ...

With thousands upon thousands of words in the English language, some are bound to have different meanings and uses. An idiom is defined as "an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to ...

Feeling “butterflies in your stomach” perfectly describes that jittery, fluttery rush before something big. The phrase first ...

A post shared on X correctly listed idioms indicating heavy rain in English, Welsh, French, Finnish, Norwegian, Greek and Slovak. Idioms are a fascinating aspect of language, reflecting cultural ...

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 ...

Let’s not beat around the bush here: Americans have a way with words. The idioms and sayings we’ve collectively coined through the years run the gamut from folksy (“couldn’t hit the side of a barn”), ...