Cutting your coat may lead to cold knees and fewer cups of coffee: Idioms
Let’s face it: no one wants to be told to scale down. Whether it’s ambitions, appetites, or accessories, we tend to dream in technicolour. But the age-old idiom “cut your…
Thunderstorms keeping it lush and green: word usage
I love the Johannesburg afternoon thunder showers. Yesterday I was caught in one crossing from an open parking lot into a shopping centre. I sprinted as much as I could…
Now you can have your cake and eat it too: Idioms are a piece of cake
In recent months I ‘ve heard many sitcoms and dramedies use the phrase cakewalk. As someone who is familiar with the term ‘piece of cake’ I wondered how the word…
