109 Popular Idioms And Their Meanings What Is an Idiom? An idiom is a group of words that are used as a common expression whose meaning is not easily deduced from the literal words within. Idioms are commonly used in the English language on TV shows, movies, written...
What Is — and Where Is — the Direct Object in a Sentence? What’s the best Christmas or Chanukah gift you’ve ever received? For me, it was Captain Power, Christmas 1987. Sure, the PowerJet XT-7 was just a glorified television remote, but I adored it and its...
Tautology 101 If you attended public school anytime in the last 40 years, you’ve likely been subjected to a motivational speaker. He may have done jail time. He may have known a little slight-of-hand magic. He probably had a mustache, and he almost certainly yelled...
Henchmen With Terrible Aim: A Guide to Understanding Tropes Mistaken identity is one of the most common tropes in all of storytelling. From “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” to “The Big Lebowski,” writing is filled with instances of one...
Commonly Confused Words: Then vs. Than Just like “Beauty and the Beast,” then vs. than is a tale as old as time. (Cue the Angela Lansbury jams and singing silverware.) The Lowdown on Then vs. Than Back in the 14th century, then and than meant basically...
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