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 ...

The Netflix K-drama "Love Next Door" starring Jung Hae-in and Jung So-min contains lots of Korean cultural references and ...

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 ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing a group of Easter Sunday terror victims, their family members, Catholic priests including His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, and others, at the ...

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...