If you’re described as a tall drink of water, or a a tall glass of water that’s a good thing. It suggests, especially for men, that you’re good-looking. A little more than a century ago, that phrase suggested a person was bland and boring, but it’s much more positive now. This is part of a complete episode.
I live in eastern NC, and in the context that I’ve heard someone is “like a tall glass of water", it meant that the person was refreshing or new/novel. Like a drink on a hot day. :^)
The English language has a variety of expressions referring to the excretion of moisture from the skin due to heat. There’s the verb perspire and the Yiddish borrowing schvitz. If you perspire profusely, you may sweat buckets, or be sweating like a...
A Havertown, Pennsylvania, listener wonders why her mother used to answer queries about how she was doing with phrase that sounded like either fair to midland or fair to middling. Middling has long meant “just OK” or “right in the middle,” and the...
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I live in eastern NC, and in the context that I’ve heard someone is “like a tall glass of water", it meant that the person was refreshing or new/novel. Like a drink on a hot day. :^)