A Minnesota listener wonders about a phrase her father always used: the juice was worth the squeeze, meaning the result was worth the effort. It’s simply a reference to squeezing a piece of fruit for drinking. The musician Lizzo suggests a...
Old Ed’ards sayings were plentiful in the 1930s, when the Lum and Abner radio show was a hit in households across the country. Lum Edwards, who made up half of the cornball duo, would offer up such wise sayings as “I always found that...
A Way with Words is celebrating its fifth anniversary as an independent program! Thanks to your donations, the show is now heard across North America and around the world by more than a quarter-million listeners each week. When we took over the show...
This week, a special treat: NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz stops by with a quiz about slang and anagrams.