During my first visit to London in 2008, when I was the editor of the English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme (ELTeCS) India and Sri Lanka e-newsletter, I along with some of my friends from the ...

Dictionary.com has an interesting slide show of 9 popular expressions in English that are direct, unidiomatic translations from several languages. Linguists call direct translations "calques" or loan ...

English has some hilarious expressions—and their origin stories are funny, too! Find out where "last-ditch effort," "under the weather," and more come from. Our everyday language is full of idioms, ...