In the military, if you’ve lost the bubble, then you can’t find your bearings. The term first referred to calibrating the position of aircraft and submarines. • The phrase the coast is clear may originate in watching for invaders...
George from Elgin, Illinois, says his sister insists guacamole should rhyme with whack-a-mole (nor the carnival game officially named “Whac-a-Mole”), reserving the more familiar pronunciation for Mexico. Standard English dictionaries give...
What’s the trouble with using the expression “drink the Kool-Aid” to connote blind, unquestioning obedience to a politician? A caller is bothered by the grisly origin of the phrase—a reference to the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown...