Writing Guidance

language-and-communication

The phrase man’s head squeezed between woman’s thighs is almost always figurative, rarely literal. In figurative use it describes a tight, constrained position where a perso...

reference

When writers invoke "Sampson dog," they are usually referencing a figure of immense strength undone by a trivial flaw. The phrase originates with the Biblical judge Samson, whos...

Celebrity Profiles

Launched off is a phrasal construct in which the past participle launched combines with the particle off to signal motion away from a point of origin. It generally describes the...