Janet in Tucson, Arizona, wonders about a phrase she once saw on a business card: Fortune Favors the Audacious. It’s a translation of...
The Spanish idiom del año del caldo describes something exceedingly old. Literally translating as “from the year of the broth,”...
In the 1940s, the slang phrase You shred it, wheat! was used to express complete agreement with something, a punning variation of You said...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski has clues to several rhyming pairs of words separated by the word and. For example, what do you call the technique...
Lorelei from Wakefield, Virginia, learned the word nonce from the Spelling Bee game in The New York Times. When she looked up the...
After our conversation about blessing boxes, those little free pantries stocked with donated food, a listener points out the use of love...
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