Money, mouth, literally, figuratively
“She’s been an education-reform warrior and has put her money where her mouth is, literally and figuratively, for a very long time.” Meaning ...?
Hem and haw and Lois
Jeepers, maybe Chip will find his way to an Orange Crate Art post about that very expression.
Got winter?
“Good morning! It got winter, didn’t it?”
Phrases to confuse
From Oxford Dictionaries, American phrases to confuse Brits and British phrases to confuse Americans.
“No worries”
I always thought that “no worries” was a Britishism. And I was unaware of “mate .” And as must be apparent by now, I’ve never watched a Crocodile Dundee movie.
Domestic comedy
About idioms.
Smith going backward
Like the punchline “No soap, radio,” the simile sounds as if it means something, but what?
Innocence and idiom
“I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.”
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...