The English Spot

Political cartoon by Rick McKee of The Augusta Chronicle in Augusta, Georgia published on 13 May 2011. to do someone a favor ( Note: in...

Political cartoon by Rick McKee of The Augusta Chronicle in Augusta, Georgia published on 29 April 2011. a gal - a girl, or a woman (Engl...

One million well-wishers thronged the streets of London yesterday for the royal wedding turning the streets into a blanket of red, white...

If you’ve ever had a book that was so good and so interesting that you just couldn’t put it down, we call this book a page turner . The idi...

I love this term intaxication , though unfortunately in France, I don’t ever feel intaxicated !  This is a play on the word, “ intoxication...

25 April 2010 - It appeared certain that Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi was going to throw his hat into the ring and seek the Republi...

Political cartoon by Jimmy Margulies of The Record in New Jersey and published on 27 December 2010. This political cartoon is a spoof ( u...

Here’s another TV commercial I saw airing on American television while I’m home this Christmas. Unlike the French, Americans like to talk a...

This funny TV commercial is currently on American television at the moment. Most of the expressions the man is using are common!! Watch and ...

My family and I were watching Disney’s Christmas Carol from last year that was recently released on DVD. In the movie, Ebenezer Scrooge says...

Political cartoon by Cameron “Cam” Cardow of The Ottowa Citizen in Canada and published on 01 December 2010. If you are down on your luck...

If you stab someone or something, you push a sharp object such as a knife into that person or thing. Thankfully, in the case of this Marin...

  Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. ...

By Ed Stein published on 23 November 2010. An avid fan is someone who is really enthusiastic about a sports team and he (or she) watches ...

The headline of this article has some great idiomatic expressions that come from fishing terminology. Let’s first look at “ What a catch! ”...

Cartoon by Bill Schorr If you hang out somewhere, it means that you just spend time in a particular place not doing anything really specia...

Cartoon by Brian and Ron Boychuk Mrs. Potato Head doesn’t like the fact that Mr. Potato Head spends all his day as a couch potato eatin...

Political cartoon by Joe Heller of the The Green Bay Press-Gazette in Wisconsin and published on 12 November 2010. This cartoon from the ...

Political cartoon by Chuck Asay of The Colorado Springs Gazette published on 06 November 2010. In this conservative leaning political cart...

This is that time of year with the change in weather when we are often under the weather . Once when I was really, really sick I looked at m...