After student Leo spotted the phrase, Chris, a fifth-grade teacher in San Diego, California, asks why a thesaurus offered cooking with gas as a synonym for okay. The expression Now you’re cooking with gas emerged in the mid-to-late 1930s, when the...
ham fat musician n.— «He went from being a “ham fat” musician (a term for amateur players in reference to young trombonists greasing their slides with lard) to a professional.» —“Remembering legendary Danny Barker” by Geraldine Wyckoff Louisiana...
trade fours v. phr.— «We shared a too brief lunch during which both father and son in the special parlance of jazz musicians “traded fours,” with a rising crescendo of memories of all that Herb Pomeroy, trumpeter and inspiring teacher, had given to...
