Almost like a less offensive Urban Dictionary, IdiomDictionary is for those phrases that everyone seems to understand except you—instead of getting them to explain it, you can look it up in their ...

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 ...

The cat's out of the bag—idioms can be tricky, even for native English speakers. If you’re going to live in the United States or converse with English speakers, you’ll need to master our most commonly ...

Idioms are figurative expressions whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definition of their individual words.

China has published a large Mongolian idiom dictionary, the biggest in the Mongolian history. The 1.9 million character dictionary, published by the Inner Mongolia Publishing House, contains about ...

Idioms are not just 'sayings', these are phrases or expressions whose meaning cannot be understood from the literal ...