“I am a deeply superficial person.” Andy Warhol An oxymoron: – a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings – a combination of contradictory or [...]

What makes English hard to learn for non-native speakers of English is that the language is full of double meanings. The pun is about wordplay that exploits those double meanings. Wikipedia [...]

The meaning of pay it forward ‘Pay it forward.’ You hear it everywhere, but what does it mean? Pay it forward is not a new idea, but in the last few years, it’s a buzzword and a huge [...]

  The ‘Monday Blues’ is a phrase that has been around since the beginning of the five-day work week.  Why ‘Monday blues’, and why blue? Blue was first used only as a [...]

When you are communicating in a foreign language, idioms are a real challenge. An idiom is a natural, everyday way of speaking one’s native language.  The native speaker understands exactly what [...]