If someone’s extremely annoyed or frustrated, you describe them with the idiomatic expression they’re fit to be tied. But where did this saying come from? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Fit to Be Tied, But How...
Having a hard time with writer’s block? So did Gustave Flaubert while trying to get his great novel Madame Bovary (Bookshop|Amazon) underway, telling a correspondent: I am finding it hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic...
A keysmash is a random string of letters typed as a way of indicating intense emotion, such as frustration. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Keysmash” You know when you’re typing an email or a text and you get...
weird stacking n.— «Ms. Reel and others had noticed a curious byproduct of the parking experiment, a phenomenon perhaps already studied by transportation specialists. She called it “weird stacking,” the notion that cars left on a street...
A Kentucky listener and her husband wonder about the proper meaning of the word everloving. Sometimes they hear it used to express frustration, as in, “Why won’t he pass the everloving basketball?”, but other times they hear it...
sidewalk alumni n.pl.— «The real alumni are great fans, root for their school, and support it no matter what. Those here that yell the loudest…brag the most…then bail at the first sign of trouble…are what I call the...