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Fact Check: A List of Idioms for 'It's Raining Cats and Dogs' in Different Languages Contains...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 2 months agoX user @AdamCSharp Claim: A post shared on X correctly listed idioms indicating heavy rain in...
Got beef with an NPC? Study finds English-learners in the UK want teachers to explain slang
Euronews via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA new study found 71% of the UK's foreign students want teachers to explain English slang they hear...
Wearing a cat on your head? Flies up your nose? Interesting animal idioms found worldwide
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 4 months ago“Right then, mate. I’ll meet you at the marsh just after sparrow-fart.” Or sparrowfarts, depending...
The Historical Origins of 7 Idioms You Say All the Time
First for Women via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLanguage is a curious thing. It's constantly changing, almost as if it’s alive. For every new word...
'Time To Hit the Books!' 50 Common Idioms and What They Really Mean
Parade via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSome idioms you likely use all the time, while others might be new to you. Idioms, phrases that come...
Color idioms we can't resist: Why do we say ‘green thumb,' 'out of the blue' and more?
Fox News via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoWhy do we use the popular expressions "green thumb," "out of the blue," and "paint the town red"?...
I sometimes think the French should just throw in the towel and speak English instead
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoI have just spent some weeks in France, and have encountered a recurrent problem: how does one cope...
Animal idioms we can't resist: Why do we say ‘cat got your tongue’ and other popular phrases?
Fox News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoEver wondered where popular phrases come from? Here are three favorite sayings with interesting...
Platée: A hugely enjoyable Love Island-style production that’s exactly what this cruel story...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 56 minutes agoComic opera can be cruel, but it is hard to think of any that is quite so brutal as Rameau’s Platée,...
17 Things Americans Say That Non-Americans Hate
HuffPost Life via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThere are 171,476 words in current use in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. If you’re learning English for the first...