brick
v.— «Boy, I bricked that one. What was I thinking of?» —“OOPS! (was Re: Dream Theater Top 10)” by Jon E. King Usenet: alt.rock-n-roll Nov. 2, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Mitchell from Arlington, Texas, wonders about his father’s expression: If a bullfrog had wings, he wouldn’t bump his butt. It’s been around since at least the early 1900s, and is a variation on an older expression, If pigs had...
William Shakespeare’s early schooling was less an English class than a Latin training ground for rhetoric, imitation, and argument. In How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education, Scott Newstok explains that Stratford grammar...