shut up and color
v. phr.— «If MacT decides to play one more season, we’ll probably have a good chance of seeing him in a Flyers uniform again, since he’ll be a free agent at the end of the year!!! okay, okay, I’ll shut up and color now.» —“Last thoughts on MacTavish” by Brian MacKenzie Usenet: alt.sports.hockey.nhl.phila-flyers Mar. 20, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A kerfuffle is a fuss, bother, or disturbance. It’s from Scots curfuffle, likely from Scottish Gaelic car, meaning “turn,” “bend,” or “twist,” plus fuffle, a Scots word that means “to disorder” or “to ruffle.” Early forms like carfuffle and...
For this week’s puzzle, Quiz Guy John Chaneski has been swapping out a single letter within each of three words in a category. Suppose, for example, the category is fruit. What three fruits might you produce by changing just one letter in each of...