To be in a brown study means to be “deep in thought,” and often refers to gloomy or melancholy contemplation. This is part of a complete episode.
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To be in a brown study means to be “deep in thought,” and often refers to gloomy or melancholy contemplation. This is part of a complete episode.
A professor who spent 25 years studying arthropods has some thoughts regarding our conversation about the phrase tight as a tick. This is part of a complete episode.
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Karen in Charlotte, North Carolina, adores her son’s cleft chin. Her husband, who also has one, calls it a butt chin. Karen prefers chimple, a combination of chin and dimple. Did she coin it? This is part of a complete episode.
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I listened to your story and today was listening to an Agatha Christie short story from 1923, The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan. Hercule Poirot was observed to be in a brown study while puzzling over a case.