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 ...

No one outside of our immediate program thought we could do anything, let alone finish where we finished,” said head coach ...

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

Stacker rounded up regional slang terms used in every state, particularly the stranger ones. The funny and bizarre list ...

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.

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

Some people curse frequently in their everyday speech. The Irish are particularly fond of it. They—and now this has caught on with Americans—use the F word as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb … in ...

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