“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” It’s a common phrase in American political discourse, particularly present in ...

Kristi Noam, Nazi slogan on podium today. “One of ours, all of yours.” WW2 SS officer killed, Nazis retaliated—One of ours, ...

Did the phrase "One of ours all of yours" originate in Nazi Germany after all the residents in a Czech village were killed in ...

The fact is that a 'magic' phrase can be the deciding factor in the success or failure of asking for something. Various ...

From the window to the wall, you could build a bookcase to house all the misinterpreted words and phrases of the English language. One of them is “balls to the wall,” which sounds like a line from a ...

If you’ve ever stayed up late to finish a paper or meet a deadline, you’ve probably said you were “burning the midnight oil.” ...

You don’t have to be in showbiz to know the right thing to say to actors before they go out on stage. Have a good show? Hardly. Good luck? Never! No, we always tell performers to “break a leg.” You ...

If you're creative with words, coining an original phrase might come easy for you. Staking a legal claim so the competition can't use it is a lot tougher. If you coin a catchphrase or ad slogan for ...

Little did Leonidas know that over 2,500 years later, "Molon Lave" would be used as a global marketing tool -from weapons to ...