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

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'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 ...

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 ...

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.