Betsy in Murray, Kentucky, used Quit your mulligrubbing during a card game, meaning quit complaining or bellyaching. Mulligrub is an old one: by the 1500s it could mean a gloomy mood, while to have the mulligrubs could refer to a stomachache or...
Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, also known as brain freeze, is a variety of nerve pain that results from something cold touching the roof of the mouth. But some people who suffer from migraines actually find ice cream confuses the nerve in a way...
you suffer from restless nights of tossing and turning, you may have a case of the mollycobwobbles. A listener shares this hand-me-down term from her grandmother. Grant explains she may well have combined two English terms dating about 150 years...
digital Alzheimer’s n.— «Experts say more and more workers in their 20s and 30s suffer from forgetfulness due to the flood of information that assaults them in the office and their growing dependency on digital devices. Some seek...