Whether they're related to food, football, or feline friends, American idioms can be colorful — and confusing to people visiting from abroad. While phrases like "shoot the breeze" (to talk about ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.37.1.0034 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.37.1.0034 This article reexamines Williams’s notion of ...

The idiom appears in American singer Katy Perry’s hit “Roar” released in 2014, which is about empowering people to speak up for themselves. Example: I used to bite my tongue and agree with ...