With all things dessert on our minds, this week, we share 10 idioms and slang lingo that will sweeten up your writing.

Buying gifts can be fun, but at times it feels like a burden. Here, we offer some English idioms and Cantonese slang to use during this merry season. Meaning: don’t try to find fault with or ...

We hope that what you meant to say was “all in all,” which is an idiom (a word or phrase whose meaning can’t be understood outside its cultural context) meaning “everything being taken ...

Discover the fascinating origins of colorful expressions like "green thumb" , "out of the blue" , and "paint the town red" in ...

There was a time, at some point during my childhood, when my cousins raised chickens. It wasn’t a big farm production with rows and rows of chicken houses or anything like that. Just a couple of ...

An old idiom has recently been buzzing around political and official circles across China. Za guo mai tie translates to, "Smash all your woks and sell them as scrap iron." ...

Then last year a document circulated by the State Council, China’s cabinet, instructed the 12 most-indebted provinces to “smash the pots and sell the iron”, an idiom signifying a last-ditch ...

The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...

When writing a list, you should put a comma between each item, except for the last item where you use ‘and’. Narrator: To stop yourself hitting the ground and turning into a brain slushy you ...

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader Senthil Balaji was granted bail by the Supreme Court on Thursday (September 26), more ...

But what if the list included explanations or extra detail about the items? Where the list items themselves already use commas, things can get complicated. That's where the semicolon can be useful.

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