Learn how to understand American English expressions! This video reveals the true meaning behind common phrases, helping you ...

Some of the words are cutesy (kerfuffle, jubilee). Others are onomatopoeic, with a similar sound to the idea they’re describing (meow, clink, squeak). Some are bizarre sounding (for example, syzygy: ...

Language preserves history in every word. Many expressions we use today have roots stretching back centuries, surviving ...

English is a phenomenally idiomatic language, so much so that it's a wonder anybody at all understands it as a speaker of another language; what on earth are people meant to make of expressions like ...

To kick-start Hispanic Heritage Month, students at Brashear High School festooned the building’s south wing corridors with ...