Reading different types of books is a great way to improve your language skills. But do you know there are a number of idioms using the word 'book'? These book idioms have nothing to do with books ...
Idioms—phrases that come to mean more than each word's "literal meaning" on their own—have been a part of spoken language for a long time. They may change as the years go by and often vary from ...
THE publication of Pashto books, ranging from poetry and short stories to current affairs and travelogues, has witnessed a considerable surge in the last decade as the land of Pakhtuns has been focus ...
It's a book that goes the whole nine yards to help people wrap their heads around the everyday delights of language, from understanding old idioms like "upsetting the apple cart" to new ones like ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Many students cram for exams by "burning the candle at both ends." But that doesn't mean non-native English speakers aren't "thrown for a loop" when they hear that idiom or that their ...
Why do we say "I'm not pulling your leg"? Or "he kicked the bucket"? I don't mean etymologically, I mean logically. Why do we use idioms? I became fascinated by that question when I discovered that ...
THE publication of Pashto books, ranging from poetry and short stories to current affairs and travelogues, has witnessed a considerable surge in the last decade as the land of Pakhtuns has been focus ...