Words don’t always mean what they look like they should. They slip into our conversations wearing borrowed clothes, hinting at one meaning while pointing to something else entirely. We tend to call ...

Never pride yourself on your knowledge. Always remember that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing — especially when you discover that Alexander Pope actually wrote that famous quotation as “A ...

Football coaches lie to us. We all know they do it, and most of the time it’s harmless. They tell us a linebacker’s sore knee is healthy. They insist a starting quarterback job is open when it’s been ...

A light-year is the distance traveled by light in a single year—5,878,499,810,000 miles, or 9,460,528,400,000 kilometers. So, despite how it sounds, when we talk about things being “light-years away,” ...

Phrases like 'Raining cats and dogs', 'as easy as pie' and 'bite the bullet' are among the most puzzling idioms for Brits, a study has revealed. The research, involving 2,000 adults, discovered that a ...

How often have you heard of someone complain he's being treated as a “guinea pig”, a subject for other's experiments? It's reasonable for us to assume that the creature referred to is a pig from ...