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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many of our everyday phrases come from Shakespeare, while others have more gruesome beginnings. But some widely repeated phrase "origins" are folk etymologies that have been passed on by word of mouth ...

A large selection of words may look like random musings online, but within the realm of blockchain, it is the randomness of these phrases, or seed phrases, that have become instrumental in ...

1. Use quotes to search for an exact phrase This one’s a well-known, simple trick: searching a phrase in quotes will yield ...

Mark Twain once said, "I never let school interfere with my education." That's just one example of an aphorism from a new collection of the handy sayings gathered and annotated by author James Geary.