Marlena from Dallas, Texas, was reading a book from the 1930s when she came across the phrase “the grouch and the brainstorm are not for us.” In a 1934 dictionary, brainstorm meant “a violent, transient mental derangement manifested in a maniacal...
In the US, if you’re ambivalent about something, you’re said to be of two minds. In the UK, however, they use a different preposition — they’re said to be in two minds. Also, Americans talk about brainstorms, which in the UK are...