Bill calls from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to say his late wife, who was from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, would jokingly tell him You talk like a sausage! What exactly did she mean? Although Germans have many expressions that include the word...
Yolanda from San Antonio, a native of the Netherlands, wonders whether going Dutch, meaning that each person pays their own way, implies that Dutch people are cheap. The phrase belongs to a cluster of English expressions that cast the Dutch in an...