Today’s most popular dog names are Max and Bella. In the Middle Ages, though, dogs would answer to names like Amiable. Or Nosewise. Or even … Clench. ? Is the term redneck derogatory? Some folks proudly claim that name. They say...
You ain’t just whistling Dixie, and that’s the truth! Whistling Dixie, which refers to a studied carelessness, comes from the song that originated in minstrel shows and from which the South takes its nickname. But if you say someone...
downwinder n.— «Downwinder is a term used to describe people who lived downwind from hundreds of nuclear tests conducted by the federal government between 1951 and 1992 at the Nevada Test Site.» —“‘Divine Strake’ test fuels Dixie...
Big Pharma n.— «Big Pharma, as it is known, offered everything: the hopes and dreams we have of it; its vast, partly realized potential for good; and its pitch-dark underside, sustained by huge wealth, pathological secrecy, corruption and...