I’ve heard the saying “All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads.” This phrase can be a mind twister until you concentrate on the meaning behind it. Both ...

One of the more enduring genres of music, one currently enjoying a modest increase in popularity, is folk music. The traditional genre often touches upon the quotidian topics of everyday life and ...

Catholics making use of the protections afforded to creators under U.S trademark law is nothing new, but it's a balancing act not easily managed.

Some common expressions sound humble, but they may unintentionally signal self-doubt and weaken how others perceive your ...

Some expressions may sound harmless, but when repeated frequently, they reveal patterns that affect relationships, finances, ...

White noise is a random signal or sound with all frequencies in a specific range with equal power, and has a flat power spectrum. In common speech, one can usually hear it as a consistent hiss or a ...

When an event, such as the death of someone close, affects you in a major way, a common idiom says the event “really hits you where you live.” But where, exactly, do you live? Not in a country, state, ...

An idiom, defined as “a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from that of the individual words (example: run of the mill),” is a key part of the English language and ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...

An eggcorn is a word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another. We’ve gathered 27 of them, and your task is simple: pick the word (or words) that best complete each ...