Here you’ll find various interesting facts, mind maps, word comparisons, and other helpful posts that can help you improve your English.
- What is a dinkus in typography?
- Why “in the red” means losing money
- Why “best bib and tucker” means your smartest clothes
- Culpable vs. liable: what is the difference?
- The origin of “beat around the bush”
- Require vs. request: what is the difference?
- Complementary vs. complimentary: How to choose the right word
- What “to cut some slack” means and how to use it
- What “in the pink” means, and where it likely came from
- Dominant vs. dominate: what is the difference?
- Where “batten down the hatches” comes from
- Lalochezia: the word for relief through swearing
- What “hard cheese” means, and where it came from
- What “in the offing” means, and where it comes from
- Broach vs. brooch: what is the difference?
- Pandemonium: a Milton coinage that became an everyday word
- How “hard and fast” got its meaning
- What “in the nick of time” originally meant
- Enquire vs. inquire: what is the difference?
- Reign vs. rein: what is the difference?
- What “in the long run” means, and where it came from
- Sacred vs. sacrosanct: what is the difference?
- The origin of “in the hot seat”
- What is a grawlix?
- Why we say “to badger someone”
- Fictional vs. fictitious: what is the difference?
- Realize or recognize: what is the difference?
- What “in the groove” means, and where it came from
- The origin of “back to square one”
- What “hand over fist” means, and where it likely comes from
- What “in the firing line” means and where it came from
- Diffident vs. indifferent: what is the difference?
- Rapt vs. wrapped: what is the difference?
- What is an aglet?
- The origin of “at a loose end”
- The trickiest writing mistake: dangling modifiers
- What “in the doghouse” means and where it comes from
- Why we say “as fit as a fiddle”
- What “an ill wind blows nobody any good” means and where it came from
- Why “in the black” means profitable
- Plane vs. plain: what is the difference?
- Formidable vs. formative: what is the difference?
- How mesmerize came from Franz Mesmer
- Why “in stitches” means laughing very hard
- Why “hair of the dog” means a drink after drinking
- Where “all that glitters is not gold” comes from
- When explode meant to clap a performer off the stage
- Parameter vs. perimeter: what is the difference?
- Worthless vs. valueless: what is the difference?
- What “in someone’s bad books” means, and where it comes from
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