Don’t Fear the Elephant in the Room
Four expressions to master – not because they’re colorful but because they’re useful Metaphorical idioms …
Up Your Alley … or In Your Wheelhouse?
Something may be up your alley or up your street, but can it be “in …
Does your “most” mean the mostest?
Numbers add both comforting precision and eerie uncertainty to life. For precision’s sake, we like …
A Return to Yesteryear
You may consider the word “yesteryear” to be a clumsy fusion of “yesterday” and “year”. …
Kerfuffle
Some seldom-used words have a particular charm: their meaning is clear simply from their spelling …
Words that Aren’t Quite Words
Copying and pasting text or images is an established and tidy practice: we copy the …
Partly Sunny – Or Partly Cloudy?
Weather fascinates in both its variety and vocabulary. A still night can morph into a …
The Wonder of Frankenfood
Monsters aren’t always scary, especially not in cartoons that decorate packages of fun foods, such …
Virtually Unnecessary Words
There’s nothing virtual about superfluous words, even if they do seem to creep into our …
A Double Take on “Doppelgänger”
“She looks just like you.” Or, “You could play his double in a movie.” If …