Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford Two weeks ago, I published a blog post on the language of describing similarities, including words such as identikit and analogous. ...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/04/24/talking-about-similarities-part-2/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford This week, I’m looking at the language we use to say that things or people are similar, either in appearance or character. There a...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/04/10/talking-about-similarities-part-1/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford Today we’re looking at idioms from a range of national newspapers that were published on the same day. We do this every couple of ...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/03/27/sitting-on-the-fence-newspaper-idioms/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford In my last post, I looked at a range of collocations for the words ‘famous’ and ‘fame’. This week, I’m continuing the ‘f...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/03/13/words-meaning-famous/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford It’s said that the artist Andy Warhol once predicted that in the future, everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes. We can’t...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/02/28/collocations-of-famous-and-fame/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford In this week’s post, I’m looking at words for fairly minor injuries – the sort of injuries that most of us get now and then as...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/02/14/words-for-minor-injuries/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford In Part 1 of my ‘Idioms with the word “world”’ post, I looked at a variety of frequent and contemporary expressions, includi...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/01/31/idioms-with-world-part-2/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford If someone told you they were on top of the world you might well guess that they were very happy, but there are a great many ‘worl...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/01/24/idioms-with-the-word-world-part-1/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford If you’ve resolved to achieve something that requires a lot of effort in 2024, then this post is for you! Today I’m looking at i...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/01/10/idioms-for-making-an-effort/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford This week, I’m looking at idioms and phrases from a range of national newspapers published on the same day in December 2023. This ...