A high-schooler asks: Why do we say throw someone under the bus when we’re talking about an act of betrayal. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “”Throwing Someone Under the Bus” Has a Complicated History” Hello, you have A Way with...
Bill Cosby is perhaps the latest but certainly not the first celebrity whom the public has fallen out of love with over something terrible they did that went public. Is there a term for this kind of mass disenchantment with a celebrity? This is part...
smalls n.— «Although a cliché, it has long been an article of faith among the nation’s “gentleman” gangsters that Smalls single-handedly destroyed an unwritten code with his betrayal. Perhaps unsurprisingly, “Smalls” has become gangland slang for a...

