Full as a goog is Australian English for completely stuffed, as after a big dinner. Ashley in Danville, Kentucky, learned it while living in Australia and still uses it when her twin daughters eat until their little bellies are taut. A goog is an...
In sports slang, a horse-collar is “a score of zero,” and to horse-collar an opponent is “to hold them scoreless.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “A Horse-Collar Score” Here’s another bit of baseball slang: horse collar. Do you...
Kieran in Huntsville, Alabama, wonders about the term laid an egg meaning performed badly. The expression to lay an egg goes back at least as far as cricket matches in the 1860s, where duck’s egg referred to a zero on a scoreboard. Later in the...