A word originally “glowing, white or pure” has settled into a figurative meaning. By Sarah Diamond In January, the New York Times reporter Emily Anthes wrote about a group of scientists who set out to ...

Figurative language (or figure of speech) involves meaning that is deeper than its literal presentation. Moreover, your child should begin to develop an understanding of figurative language in the ...

What’s really going on when the big cheese at your office is dangling a red herring? Find out the origins of these familiar foodie phrases. Eventually, the phrase took on the figurative meaning we ...

A FOLLOWER of my Facebook page for Jose Carillo’s English Forum, Maria Fernandez, told me in a post a few weeks ago that she finds phrasal verbs deceiving: “I get confused trying to distinguish them ...

Figurative language provides an excellent way for people to communicate. It allows you to convey necessary information in an effective manner. Some of the things you may want to express could be ...

When you misuse the word “literally,” you are using it in the exact opposite way it was intended. When you fuck it up, you fuck it up so bad. It’s not like a little goof. It’s not like you said ...

Felicity Deamer has previously received funding from the AHRC (AH/L004070/1) 2014-2016, and the Wellcome Trust (WT108720) 2016-2019. Figurative language, by which the speaker intends to communicate ...