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 ...

Like a lot of our most bizarre phrases and expressions, beat around the bush was once referred to something entirely literal: It came out of hunting and alluded to those who were tasked with thrashing ...

At first, it’s easy to think that the phrase may you live in interesting times is a form of wishing someone well. After all, interesting times are better than boring ones, right? But in fact, the most ...

Certain idioms in English immediately grab one’s attention not only because of their meaning but also because of their sound ...