If you say to someone the Spanish equivalent of “you’re giving me green gray hairs” (me sacas canas verdes), it means that person is making you angry. In Japan, the phrase that literally translates as “one red dot” refers metaphorically to “the lone...
Making money hand over fist evokes the motion of hauling in a rope quickly, one hand passing over the other and closing into a fist. Betsy in Connecticut heard the phrase at dinner, where her daughters guessed it might come from the baseball-bat...
