Lee from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, remembers her Danish grandmother breaking up a loud argument between Lee’s mother and aunt by telling the twins, you sound like fishwives! To yell like a fishwife or to quarrel like a fishwife means to shout or...
“Are we ready to order yet?” Why do restaurant servers use the word “we” when they’re not eating with you or helping you pay the bill? And a story of Cold War intrigue: A young saxophone player’s clever ruse to smuggle information past KGB...