If someone is speaking in a way that’s confused or unintelligible, a Dutch saying applies: Er is geen chocola van te maken describes something incomprehensible, but literally translates as “You can’t make chocolate out of it...
Joan from Buffalo, New York, wants to know how to spell a particular word that means to spiff up, clean up, straighten, or fix. The word is zhuzh, which has had dozens of different spellings over the years because it’s primarily transmitted...
Byron in Florence, South Carolina, is curious about his grandmother’s expression might as well, can’t dance, which she used when someone suggested an activity. This saying, as well as longer versions, are rooted in the idea of weather...