Kelsey from Washington, D.C., says her family uses the term wishing well eggs to denote the the result when you cut a hole in the middle of a piece of toast, break an egg over the hole, and then fry up the whole thing. She’s also heard people call...
In German, ein Korb geben–literally, to “give a basket”—means to “turn down a potential date.” This idiom derives from a medieval legend about a castle-dwelling woman. Instead of letting her hair down for a suitor she didn’t fancy, she let down a...
Five guys walk into a diner. One orders a toad in the hole, another the gashouse eggs, the third gets eggs in a basket, the next orders a hole in one, and the last fellow gets spit in the ocean. What does each wind up with? The same thing! Although...
That little basket that your strawberries and blueberries come in? It’s called a punnet. Just so you know. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Punnet” For some reason, Martha, I’ve been coming across a lot of terms for containers. You...
triangle and two n.— «He added the layup in the third quarter, but it would be the only basket of the quarter for Waterford as Weston switched to up defensive schemes to take out both Malhoit and Trevor Hendry. “We went to the triangle and two...
chicken-in-a-basket n. in attributive uses, connoting unsophisticated, unfashionable, or unoriginal entertainment, especially in a remote or rustic environment; in the form chicken-in-a-basket circuit, a series of performances by an unpopular or...
