Reading different types of books is a great way to improve your language skills. But do you know there are a number of idioms using the word 'book'? These book idioms have nothing to do with books ...

It's a book that goes the whole nine yards to help people wrap their heads around the everyday delights of language, from understanding old idioms like "upsetting the apple cart" to new ones like ...

Idioms—phrases that come to mean more than each word's "literal meaning" on their own—have been a part of spoken language for a long time. They may change as the years go by and often vary from ...

The chapter “Popper’s Performing Penguins” describes preparations before the family goes on tour, and one phrase could confuse young readers. The author wrote in Chapter 15: “Then Mrs. Popper had to ...

THE publication of Pashto books, ranging from poetry and short stories to current affairs and travelogues, has witnessed a considerable surge in the last decade as the land of Pakhtuns has been focus ...

GO DOWN DEAD by Shane Stevens. 236 pages. Morrow. $4.95. At 16, Adam Clayton Henry is loaded with esoteric knowledge learned from life, not books. He knows the rituals and rules of gang fighting, ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Many students cram for exams by "burning the candle at both ends." But that doesn't mean non-native English speakers aren't "thrown for a loop" when they hear that idiom or that their ...