Molly in San Diego grew up hearing her mother say someone daydreaming was in a brown study. The phrase goes back in English to the 1500s and means deep in thought, often with a gloomy or melancholy cast. Here brown reflects an older sense of dark or...
The expression “dark as Egypt” means really dark, and is a reference to the story in the book of Exodus of the ten plagues that descended upon Egypt, the ninth of these being complete darkness. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Dark...
