What’s so cool about bees’ knees, anyway? The bee’s knees, a phrase meaning “cool” or “great,” dates back to the flapper era of the 1920s. It relates to an old definition of the word “cute,” referring to something small and nicely formed. The knees...
Why do we call our biceps guns? The slang lexicographer Jonathon Green suggests that the metaphor first pops up in baseball around the 1920s, when players referred to their throwing arms as guns. Believe it or not, the early baseball pitchers...
A professional musician maintains that many people use the word crescendo incorrectly. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Proper Use of Crescendo” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hello, this is Linda from Fort Worth, Texas. Hi...
