English is a phenomenally idiomatic language, so much so that it's a wonder anybody at all understands it as a speaker of another language; what on earth are people meant to make of expressions like ...

Learn 6 useful English idioms used by native speakers. Understand American expressions such as white-collar, blue-collar, and ...

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 what ...

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Idioms are an often invisible barrier to understanding and inclusion for second-language speakers because their meanings rely ...