Are both expressions "At the beginning" "In the beginning" valid and equivalent? The first "seems wrong" to me, but it has more Google results.

Mar 19, 2013 · In the following sentence, what is the meaning of 'in the ether'? Rather than calling some function in the ether and passing arguments, we call a method on one particular object …

Apr 14, 2017 · The idiomatic expression to have "skin in the game" means to have incurred monetary risk by being involved in achieving a goal. In the phrase, "skin" is a synecdoche for the …

Mar 23, 2015 · What does “in the name of…” actually mean? Putting all religious contentions aside for the sake of our language, the etymology of name offers a good place to start …

Insightful information! But I have to disagree in the context of this particular question. Since the phrase is "I'll call her ___ Easter", "in" wouldn't be a proper fit at all. If anything, "on" is probably …

People speak "all screwed up". They truncate, they switch topics, they do all sorts of things, and they especially turn expressions on their heads [haha]. "time is of the essence" is used in legal …

Mar 12, 2013 · Meaning See you in the funny paper [s] means "Goodbye, see you soon". A Dictionary of Catch Phrases (1986) by Eric Partridge and Paul Beale says: see you in the funny …

Which of the following sentences is correct, and why? I bought a house in the outskirts of the city. I bought a house on the outskirts of the city.

Jan 11, 2016 · In the news... This refers to when someone or some event is widely discussed in that subset of media we call "the news." "Barrack Obama was in the news." This means that …

Both are grammatical. There seems to be little difference in meaning, but a detailed corpus search might show that they were used in different contexts. What corpus evidence does show …