To be on the lam is to be running from the law, and lam likely comes from an older verb meaning to beat or thrash. Because beat it also came to mean run away or scram, lam appears to have followed the same path into slang for fleeing. Colleen in...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski presents a puzzle in which we remove the first letter of a phrase to yield another with a different meaning. Try one: originally it was a boxing film starring Robert De Niro. Now it describes a head of cattle that’s...