Reaping the worldwind?
“The events in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are part of their worldwind tour of several key battleground states over the next few days.”
Idiom of the day: clever clogs
“Edmund Elephant is a clever clogs.”
Idiom of the day: soup up
A clue in yesterday’s Newsday crossword — five letters, “Jazzes (up)” — prompted me to (finally) write a post about “soup up.”
Idiom of the day: hurrah’s nest
“This is a hurrah’s nest, and the sooner it’s dumped on the district attorney’s desk, the better I like it.”
Idiom of the day: seat-of-the-pants
The origin is surprising to me.
Idiom of the day: go to pot
Elaine and I wondered about the pot in go to pot . We had three guesses between us: a chamber pot, a cooking pot, and a pot for a plant.
A good skate
I had to look it up.
Phrases to confuse
From Oxford Dictionaries, American phrases to confuse Brits and British phrases to confuse Americans.
Blues idiom of the day: dust one’s broom
From Stephen Calt’s Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary
Unusual idiom of the day
“I don’t want to burden you out.”
Everything but the kitchen sink
Clinton campaign and an idiom
Hemming and hawing
I spent some time yesterday hemming and hawing. At least I thought I did. I've always understood hem and haw as a reference to vacillation...