You look like the hind wheels of destruction means “You look terrible!” An earlier version is the hind wheels of bad luck. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Hind Wheels of Destruction” Hello, you have A Way...
Ian in Clyde, North Carolina, is puzzled when a colleague uses the term blue million, meaning “a large amount.” Along with words like zillion and gazillion, this expression functions as an indefinite hyperbolic numeral. Sometimes the...
Kelly from Cincinnati, Ohio, says her father uses the word gradoo to mean “clutter” or “a bit of litter.” Also spelled gradu or gradeau, our listeners report using this word in a variety of ways, to mean “gunk,”...
“The Die is Cast” is the title of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. A listener and his wife disagree about what kind of “die” is meant here. It’s not a reference to metallurgy– it’s a quotation...
bad adj.— «Emprunté à l’anglais, le mot “bad” ne veut pas dire “mauvais,” mais son contraire “bon”—preuve que le jeu est bien de brouiller les pistes.» —“Vivre avec 400...
Black n.— «Cela ne veut pas dire qu’on est racistes. Blacks, Blancs ou “Hindous,” on a tous grandi dans la même cité. On peut se permettre des familiarités sur nos différences de culture. C’est un jeu...