Phrase of the day: The English idiom 'pay the price' describes facing negative outcomes from past choices. This phrase ...

List helps computers understand expressions with more than one meaning Computers might well be 'with it', but 'they haven't got a clue' about expressions. Dutch researcher Nicole has come up with a ...

Being a linguist — and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue (Flemish Dutch) — I have an annoying habit: instead of paying attention to ...

The classic song "When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)," made famous by Louis Armstrong and later sung by artists like Frank Sinatra and Michael Bublé, captures an idea most of us ...