Mark in Long Beach, California, was considering hell for leather as a racing-team name. The phrase means going recklessly at full speed, but its origin is uncertain. A traditional explanation points to a rough horseback ride, with saddle, reins, or...
It’ll never be seen on a galloping horse is a handy answer to tiny flaws in sewing or quilting: from a moving horse, nobody will notice the mismatched plaid or crooked stitch. Debbie in San Diego grew up hearing her seamstress mother’s family...
fi-fi n.— «Paul E. Erdman, a writer of best-selling novels of financial intrigue who began his literary career in a Swiss jail, where he was being held in connection with the collapse of the Swiss bank he ran, died Monday of cancer, his...
