Ty in Nashville, Tennessee, has fond memories of his dad handing him what he called folding money. This term simply refers to bills, rather than coins. Other versions include folding dough,folding stuff, folding matter, folding green, folding lettuce, and folding cabbage. It’s a slang reference to the physical characteristics of the bills, much like greenbacks is another term for bills. Similarly, clink, jing, jinglers, and janglers refer to coins, and stacking money or stackola refer to either form of currency. This is part of a complete episode.
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
If someone’s got melon, it means they’re smart. The expression most likely arose because of the resemblance between a melon and a human head. Several other foods are associated with having brains, including a cabbage, a gourd, and even a...
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