Wordcels Puzzle celebrates the words and expressions that have infused American English. Each day an expression is featured giving its meaning, history and showing its ties to culture and the moments that made the expression stick as part of the language.
Even for native speakers there may be one expression each day that is new and worth learning. Some expressions that are old hat, may have an interesting history, like this one. Each day, one expression is the featured expression of the day.
“Party hard” means intensely, excessive, and often reckless partying, characteri...
A ‘moving part’ is a component in a machine that is designed to move as part of...
The term country mile really just means a long way. It is not a different defini...
A courthouse is the physical location where justice supposedly occurs—where judg...
Ice hockey is Canada's game, and the first organized indoor match happened on Ma...
The ‘free world’ is a geopolitical term referring to nations with democratic sys...