If you’re feeling poorly, you have several options for expressing how crummy you feel, including: I feel like death on a soda cracker, I feel lower than a snake in a wagon rut, I feel like I’ve been rode hard and put up wet, or I feel like I’m going to hell on a scholarship. This is part of a complete episode.
Susie Dent’s murder mystery Guilty by Definition (Bookshop|Amazon) follows a lexicographer in Oxford who becomes a sleuth of a different kind, seeking the culprit in a long-unsolved killing. A lexicographer herself, Dent includes lots of obscure and...
Mona from Riverview, Florida, grew up understanding that the word schmooze, which comes from Yiddish, meant simply “to mingle and chat” at parties, but when she fondly referred to her friend as a schmoozer, the friend was insulted, assuming that a...
