They can be used to describe someone who is furious, boring, too fast or too slow: Different German-language idioms include a reference to automobiles. "Abschleppen" is the word for towing, but ...

What blinds, but does not rust? What can make its way through the digestive track, but also fall down? The answer, according to popular German idioms, is one of the greatest feelings in the world: ...

Anyone learning a foreign language knows "you should not translate idioms literally," says Rolf-Bernhard Essig in his most recent book about phrases and idioms, "Phoenix aus der Asche" (Phoenix from ...

We use idioms to pepper our speech and writing, often without even realising we’re doing it. These odd little phrases are used to express a sentiment other than their literal meaning. It doesn’t ...