Example: Despite having a degree in English literature, he got stuck in a dead ... such as firing people. The idiom has darker origins when men with hatchets (small axes) or other weapons were ...

Here are nine sayings from the English literary world and two phrases from ... Originating from Chinese philosopher Mencius, this idiom is about soldiers fleeing from their opponents.

Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining inAmerican Literary Fiction, twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades,explores both range and individual register. The ...