Have you ever been so hungry you could eat a horse? Or so tired you could sleep for a million years? If so, congratulations—you’re familiar with hyperbole (even if you couldn’t define it to save your ...

The Prime Minister’s promise to put ₹15 lakh in every Indian’s bank account wasn’t understood by everyone as hyperbole, so there was a lot of disappointment when it never happened. Many of the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Take a championship American professional football game. Add an important name, like “Super Bowl.” Use Roman numerals ...

Bleaching as a type of semantic change is often mentioned in works on grammaticalization, but very few studies focus on how bleaching occurs. The literature on hyperbole as a figure of speech notes ...