The phrase became popular, but, over time, its second part was "lost". And, now, an "unlucky drowned man" is understood to mean a person who fails in everything. A similar expression in English ...

such as 'eejit' or 'banjaxed' there isn't really an explanation of where the phrase comes from. We just accept them and universally Irish people everywhere know what they mean. "I used to get in ...

The median is often compared with other descriptive statistics such as the mean which means average, mode, and standard deviation. The median is the middle number in a sorted list of numbers and ...

Idioms—phrases that come to mean more than each word's "literal meaning" on their own—have been a part of spoken language for a long time. They may change as the years go by and often vary ...

UNITED STATES — What does it mean to be demure and mindful? If you haven’t heard this phrase yet, it is only a matter of time. Stemming from the original TikTok that went viral, this phrase is ...

In his third year leading an Orientation session on academic freedom and free expression, President Christopher L. Eisgruber encouraged transfer and first-year students to make the most of the ...

According to a new report, two people filed trademark applications for the phrase. Per NBC News, a man named Jefferson Bates filed an application in Washington last week to trademark the now-viral ...

Although “joy” has been a theme and buzzword used by the Harris campaign and observers, opens new tab, there is no evidence the campaign ever adopted the Nazi-era phrase on its website, opens ...

When people strike us as particularly “well-educated,” this might mean that they’ve had lots of school, Valiant writes, but it could also mean that they’re exceptionally educable ...

"Demure and mindful" – you'd have to be living under a rock to have not heard these phrases flying around on social media in the last few weeks. Do you know what is not very demure or mindful ...