From William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney, figurative language such as idiom, metaphor, symbolism and allegory all function to make a poem sound more colourful and appealing to the reader. But are we ...

What does it mean 'to bare your teeth' or 'bare your soul'? What about 'to lay bare' something? Let's find out in this lesson on bare idioms and expressions. 'Bare' can mean without any cover or ...

Learn 19 common English idioms to speak like a native! Improve your English vocabulary and comprehension with these essential phrases and examples. Trump says agreement reached on Greenland—cancels ...

Idioms are an often invisible barrier to understanding and inclusion for second-language speakers because their meanings rely on shared culture as well as language.

To egg someone on can mean to encourage a person to do something silly. Their mates egged them on to climb up the roof without any safety gear. A good egg can be someone who is good and kind. On the ...

Language changes fast, and new words and phrases are being created all the time. In this programme, Rob and Sam talk about some modern idioms – new expressions that have been introduced to English ...

So to speak, to coin a phrase, if you know what I mean. In Denmark, if someone is drunk they might say he's "vissen" (withered) and instead of being "under the table" he’ll be "i hegnet" (in the fence ...

Semantic Extension, Idioms and Proverbs, Cultural Semantics, Cognitive Semantics Share and Cite: Di, J.Y. (2026) A Semantic Analysis of “Peach” in Chinese and Japanese. Open Access Library Journal, 13 ...