English Idioms

Turkey is a traditional Christmas holiday meal in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. No one asks turkey birds themselves whe...

In journalism, a sound bite is a short clip of audio from an event that is the subject of a news report. A bite is, idiomatically, a small ...

The adjective "draconian" is an idiom for particularly harsh laws . It is a reference to Draco , the legislator (in this instance...

In this case, "suffering a new blow" is blow in the sense of an attack, a strike, a hit. A new blow means a new and additional set...

There are various words added to "into thin air" to create expressions with very similar meanings. If something evaporates into ...

While famous as the title of a novel and movie, the expression "gone with the wind" simply means disappeared, evaporated, vanishe...

When we refer to "mixed messages," this means confusing, contradictory, inconsistent messages (plural) where a single, clear mes...