Ryan in Ketchikan, Alaska, heard two friends say they’d come to his museum exhibit opening dressed in bells, a playful twist on the much more common with bells on. The usual phrase means showing up eagerly, ready to add to the fun, not merely...
Who is Boo-Boo the Fool? A listener wonders if this African-American character has any relation the Puerto Rican fool, Juan Bobo. Martha draws a connection to the Spanish term bobo, meaning “fool,” and its Latin root balbus, meaning “stammerer.” The...
sunshine story n.— «These pieces of paper which masquerade as newspapers have literally gone to sleep. In the event that they wake up, all they do is to play the role of praise singers and publish what is called in journalistic parlance...