Explore the 25 startling origins of popular idioms! Uncover the dark, bizarre, and fascinating histories behind everyday ...

If you've ever shot the breeze, had a heart-to-heart or bent somebody's ear — in fact, if you've ever talked at all — odds are you've used an idiom. These sometimes bizarre phrases are a staple of ...

Hit the sack, hold your horses, once in a blue moon and when pigs fly. What do all these strange turns of phrase have in common? They are all idioms. An idiom is an expression that is commonly ...

Learning languages is challenging. There are thousands of strange new words to know, along with how to pronounce them and use them correctly in a sentence. One of the trickier parts is figuring out ...

Language changes fast, and new words and phrases are being created all the time. In this programme, Rob and Sam talk about some modern idioms – new expressions that have been introduced to English ...