“If you come to a fork in the road… take it!” Baseball legend Yogi Berra was famous for such head-scratching observations. What most people don’t realize, though, is that the former Yankees star often wasn’t the first person to say them. As Berra...
With the idiom “it’s all downhill from here,” the meaning depends on the context. With an optimistic tone, it means that something’s heading toward an inevitably good ending, but there are times in business uses where it refers to an unhappy fate...
You’ve been reading a book but you’re just not into it. How do you quit it, guilt-free? How do you break up with a book? Also, what do you ask for when you go through the grocery checkout line: bag, sack, or something else? Plus, brung vs. brought...
If you say something’s going downhill, does that mean things are getting better or worse? Here’s the rule: if something’s going downhill, it’s getting worse, but if things are all downhill from here, they’re getting better. This is part of a...
whoop n.— «Two weeks ago I listened while Karolyn and Julia talked about the steep downhill and the series of “whoops” at the beginning of the trail. “Whoops” are like moguls in downhill skiing, they are mounds that you ride over—don’t forget you...