There are doobies, and then there are good doobees. A caller from Traverse City, Michigan, says her husband refers to himself as a good doobee whenever he’d clean the house or pay the bills. The phrase goes back to Romper Room, a...
To dime someone out, just like to drop a dime (on someone), is to nark or tattle, common in the days when it cost ten cents to use a pay phone and snitch. Of course, that’s when pay phones were used at all. This is part of a complete episode.
Here’s an Afghan proverb about honesty: “A tilted load won’t reach its destination.” This is part of a complete episode.
In American English, khaki has come to connote “business casual,” but it comes from the Farsi word for “earthy.” In the 1840s, the British picked it up in the north of India as a descriptor for their sturdy soldiers’...
“Every plate that is made, breaks.” This Afghan proverb means that all things come to an end. This is part of a complete episode.
Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a number game about things so grand, words like forever become five-ever. This is part of a complete episode.