To frogmarch someone means to hustle them out of a place, usually by grabbing their collar and pinning their arms behind. Originally, this verb referred to police carrying an unruly person out of a building face down with a different person grasping...
Grant talks about a Jack Hitt article on dying languages in the New York Times, which points out that sometimes “the last living speaker” of a language…isn’t. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Last Living Speakers” Martha, at the...
deal monkey n.— «This cynical world has produced contrition up and down the Street, but no one is about to pull out of the hustle. Each investment bank employs what are affectionately known as “deal monkeys,” whose job it is to improve a bank’s...
