English has some hilarious expressions—and their origin stories are funny, too! Find out where "last-ditch effort," "under the weather," and more come from. Our everyday language is full of idioms, ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has expanded its lexicon with the addition of 24 Nigerian words and expressions such as “nyash, ...

BETWEEN the language of literature and the language of common life there must be, whether in a living tongue or a dead one, differences growing out of the nature of literature. The very making of ...

Other languages have words that mean false, tacky, or trying too hard, but only the English slang term “cheesy” can fully express something so fake that it stinks like Camembert: “He came up to me at ...