To divert attention away from someone else toward oneself, often intentionally.

FRIDAY PUZZLE — Waiter, there’s a curve in my crossword! (Feel free to drop a punchline in the comments section.) Today’s ...

An idiom is an expression or phrase that cannot be deduced from the literal meaning of the words in it. The meaning of an ...

Move over em-dash, there’s a new AI giveaway. It’s hard to deny that AI is everywhere these days, and it’s no surprise that it’s making its way into classrooms. Since sneaky students are figuring out ...

What is an idiom? These are phrases which cannot be deciphered simply by looking at the literal meaning of the individual words in them. Native English speakers use idiomatic expressions all the time.

“Just” is an odd word in this context. To be just in time or just over the edge means almost-not, barely, without a margin; I ...

The good news is that machine text still leaves fingerprints – little patterns that appear when you read closely or run a few ...

Talk is cheap. For further enlightenment. I’d urge my fellow readers to waste some time watching C‑SPAN hearings or Supreme Court arguments. You’ll see esoteric pomp and hair-splitting discussion over ...

Proposed law sanctions public statements ‘presenting acts of terrorism as legitimate resistance’ and creates a new offence ...

When I heard the shocking news of Ernest Hemingway’s suicide on July 2, 1961, I was sipping a Pernod in a Paris bar/café named Storyville, named after the ...

Idioms are figurative expressions whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definition of their individual words. Idioms are an important part of the English language, as these phrases add ...

In writing, sometimes we hope a story we envision finds its way onto the page exactly as we pictured it.