Baseball has a language all its own: On the diamond, a snow cone isn’t what you think it is, and three blind mice has nothing to do with nursery rhymes. And how do you describe someone who works at home while employed by a company in another city...
In Maryland and Virginia, bluebird weather is a brief period of warm weather in autumn. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Bluebird Weather” Grant, have you ever heard the term bluebird weather? No, but I know about the bluebird of...
This week’s slang contestant learns about the slang terms blue-bird and corpsing. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Blue-Bird and Corpsing” You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Grant Barrett. And I’m Martha Barnette, and it’s...
bluebird n.— «In exchange for this “bluebird”—a sale that flies in the window—I said I’d have to have access to a 3000.» —by Sandra L. Kurtzig, Tom Parker CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Ground Up , 1991. (source: Double-Tongued...
bluebird n. in business, an unexpected, very profitable, or easily made sale. Etymological Note: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “bluebird” connoting “happiness” dates to at least as early as 1909. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
bluebird n.— «That actually was a bit of a blue bird, I’d have to say.…They had actually as a customer been dormant for some time. And then apparently their business must have started picking up because all of a sudden they came back and wanted...