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 ...

Idioms are figurative expressions of a speaker’s information. They give a deeper context to what the speaker actually means. They are ways of manners people hide the meaning of expressions. Some of ...

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 ...