Archives for the 'Expressions' Category

• 40 French Expressions “En Tout”
• 50 Handy Expressions About Hands
• 10 Intensifiers You Should Really, Absolutely Avoid
• 20 Synonyms for “Expert”
• 10 Demographic Names and Expressions
• 12 Misunderstood and Misquoted Shakespearean Expressions
• 7 Expressions and Ideas About Elephants
• 10 Terms for the Common People
• The Ins and Outs of “High” and “Low”
• The Old News About the Oxymoron
• 5 Slang Words That May Never Be Legit
• 10 Terms of Gender Identity
• 225 Foreign Phrases to Inspire You
• The Other N-Words
• The Indispensable Interjection “Oh”
• 150 Foreign Expressions to Inspire You
• Nylon Stockings and Denier Spam
• The Shelf Lives of Expressions and Slang
• 25 Words and Their Prepositional Pals
• Are Anti-Semitic Arabs Self-Haters?
• 5 Fixes for Pop-Culture Pile-Ups
• I Said Jerry Rig
• “Because Of” and “Due To”
• Kiss Anyone, Just Not the Gunner’s Daughter
• A Little Fox Never Hurt Anyone
• A Besetting Sin
• This is so gay!
• Peace of Mind and A Piece of One’s Mind
• Heart-rending and Gut-wrenching
• Types of Ignorance
• “Quit” as Predicate Adjective
• “Ma’am” and Regional Colonialism
• Irish Potatoes and Pennsylvania Dutch
• “To Tide You Over”
• The Ambiguity of “Afraid”
• “Near East” vs “Middle East”
• Compare and Contrast
• Life Passed Me By
• Empathy “With” or Empathy “For”?
• Albatross and Alcatraz Island
• Overwhelm and Underwhelm
• Spitting Image
• Bob’s Your Uncle!
• Hear, Hear!
• One Fell Swoop
• Lucky Expressions
• “Have” vs “Having” in Certain Expressions
• “Make Peace With” and “Come to Terms With”
• 100% Will Suffice
• I Pity the Full!
• Made With Scratch?
• This Sink Needs Fixed
• “Based in” and “based out of”
• The Quasi-adjective “Couple”
• Excited ABOUT, not “for”
• Hale and Haul
• Ipso Facto and Other “Factos”
• Sources of Titles Drawn from Shakespeare
• Book Titles from Shakespeare
• 3 Common Latin Expressions
• Excuse me!
• What Does “to bring to bear” Mean?
• Everybody Speaks Hamlet
• Opinion of, Opinion on, Opinion about
• Take An Example
• Weltering in Gore
• “Homing In” and Plain “Honing”
• “One-Off” is not a New Expression
• What does “in camera” Mean?
• “Hell-bent” and “Hell-for-leather”
• Post, Entry or Article?
• What’s the Time?
• The Line is for the Toe
• Motherland or Fatherland?
• “Human Readers” A Tautology?
• “Completed Suicide”
• Waiting with Bated Breath
• Happy Yuletide!
• Tomayto or Tomahto?
• Hey You!
• Thou lily-liver’d boy!
• Best Foot Forward
• Verbification at Work
• Hamstrings and Hamstringing
• Curating the Web
• “In” and “On” with Time Expressions
• Hypercorrecting A Well-known Phrase
• Calloused or Callused?
• Parsons Chairs and Parsons
• Catfights and Dogfights
• Here I thought “Nimrod” was a compliment!
• Illegal Aliens and Illegal Immigrants
• Meddling with Mettle
• Foo Fighters and UFOs
• “Loath” and “Loathe”
• Time, Gentlemen, Please!
• Nothing Wrong with “went missing”
• It’s Greeking to Me
• Needing to do A Few Things
• The Post Office is Kitty-corner to the Court House
• Brainstorms, Turning to Showers
• The Devil, Part Two
• Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill
• That Dark Type is Called “Boldface”
• Coming Down the Pike
• “Pomp and Ceremony” or “Pomp and Circumstance?”
• First Come, First Served
• “Wracking” or “Racking” Your Brain?
• Does Web Usage Matter?
• Free Rein or Free Reign?
• Rule of Thumb
• The Humble Foot
• Airplane Ears
• Without Cease
• Let’s Party!
• Laurels and What One Does With Them
• The Cat’s Pajamas
• Speak of the Devil!
• Hurrah for the Lowly BUG
• How Can a War Be “Civil”?
• Not Good or No Good?
• Eating Humble Pie
• A Harrowing Use of “Harry”
• The Many Faces of “Run”
• That Elusive Will o’ the Wisp
• Mmmm, You Dirty Rat!
• In the Long Tail
• More Than One Meaning for “Poke”
• O Captain, My Captain!
• Hey Clyde, Who’s That Harvey?
• Banished Words of 2009
• Can “blarney” be “in fine fettle”?
• Passing the Buck Slip
• I Got the Blues
• Some “All” Words and Expressions
• The Changing Pronunciation of “Leisure”
• We’re in the Pink
• “Colloquial” Does Not Have to Equate with “Ignorant”
• Hoist With His Own Petard
• Autumn or Fall?
• Know Your Eschatology
• Dirt and Filth
• Some Hairy Expressions
• Cut To The Chase
• Everybody Must Make Up Their Own Mind About “Their”
• When Did “Pimp” Become a Positive Term?
• Pander Code
• Nonstandard Usage Detracts from Novel
• If You Can Keep Your Head…
• Even, Yet, and Still
• Blowing The Gaff
• The Vicissitudes of the Latin Plural in English
• Few vs. Several
• What’s a Male Mistress?
• Euphemism and Euphuism
• A Slip Of The Lip
• Found Any Eggcorns Lately?
• Speaking Of Eponyms
• Caesar, Kaiser, and Czar
• Politicians and Humpty Dumpty
• Usage That Provokes “Blackboard Moments”
• Multiple Plurals, Multiple Meanings
• Ten Yiddish Expressions You Should Know
• Better Use “Redneck” with Care
• Skin And Bones
• “Black Friday”: An Unfortunate Expression
• Gods and Ducks – Get It Right
• Dear Sir
• Is it Libel, or is it Slander?
• Numerical Expressions
• Hang, Hung, Hanged
• Don’t Be Vexed by Vexillology
• “Pushing Up Daisies” and Other Euphemisms for Death
• No More Used Cars
• Latin Words and Expressions: All You Need to Know
• “Could Care Less” versus “Couldn’t Care Less”
• 6 Foreign Expressions You Should Know
• Let the Word Do the Work

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