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Following up on our conversation about terms for “weak coffee,” a listener in Mexico reports that there, such a beverage is...
If someone’s unfamiliar to us, why do we say I don’t know him from Adam’s off ox? This phrase is occasionally mistaken as...
In one memorable passage from Nick Hornby’s book, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius (Bookshop|Amazon), the author...
Our conversation about bang out sick and bang in sick, both meaning to “call one’s employer to say they’re not coming in...
Dexter from San Diego, California, says his family used the word zoris for the footwear other people call flip-flops. In Japan, the word...
The terms ballpark estimate and ballpark figure originated in the 1940s among members of the United States Air Force, who first used...
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