Sunday 22 December 2024
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![FILE - A person walks in freezing cold temperatures in New York City on January 17, 2024. Temperature highs in the city are expected to hit 25F (-3.9C). (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)]()
December 21, 2024Expressions That ‘Stop You Cold’
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![This cover image released by Atlantic Records shows "brat" by Charli XCX. (Atlantic Records via AP)]()
December 14, 2024For Words of the Year: Brat, Brain Rot, Polarization
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![FILE - Finance professionals learn how to play guandan, a poker-like card game, during a training session in Beijing, China, August 6, 2023. (REUTERS/Yew Lun Tian)]()
December 07, 2024'Show Your Hand', other Card Idioms
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![FILE - John Dillinger (C), a well-known gangster, is handcuffed and guarded in court awaiting his trial on Feb. 9, 1934. (AP PHOTO)]()
November 30, 2024What Does ‘Like Gangbusters’ Mean?
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![FILE - Boston Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers gets an elbow bump from the batboy (right) after hitting a two-run home run at Tropicana Field, Sept. 10, 2020, St. Petersburg, Florida. (Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports)]()
November 23, 2024Learn 'Rub Elbows,' Other 'Rub' Expressions
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![FILE - "Old timers, Spriggs, Lamb and Dillon at work" panning for gold (pay dirt) at Rockervill, S.D., in the Black Hills, 1889. (John C. H. Grabill/Library of Congress)]()
November 16, 2024What Does It Mean to ‘Hit Pay Dirt'?
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![FILE - A police car sits outside Ohio City Hall which received a bomb threat on Thursday morning, in Springfield, Ohio, U.S., September 12, 2024. (REUTERS/Julio-Cesar Chavez)]()
November 09, 2024Have You Ever Felt the ‘Long Arm of the Law?’
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![FILE - Pope Francis apologizes to Indigenous peoples for abuses committed by missionaries during a visit at Maskwaci, the former Ermineskin Residential School, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Maskwacis, Alberta. In other words, he offered a mea culpa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay/File photo)]()
November 02, 2024For When You Do Something Wrong: Mea Culpa
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![FILE - This August 19, 2015, photo shows a monarch butterfly landing on a flower in Vista, California. (AP File Photo/Gregory Bull)]()
October 26, 2024Exploring the 'Butterfly Effect'
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![FILE - Sheet Metal Union member Dan Hines carries Jackson Kin on his shoulders as he and Erica Kin march in the annual Labor Day Parade in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., September 2, 2024. (REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)]()
October 19, 2024Expressions Using Our Head and Shoulders
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![FILE - A street vendor sells hats in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Monday, July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)]()
October 12, 2024When in Rome …
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![FILE - This photo shows citrus pumpkin meringue pie in Concord, New Hampshire, October 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)]()
October 05, 2024Is ‘Pie in the Sky’ Just a Dream?
