What colorful language do you use to when you’re angry and tempted to use a four-letter word? There’s a difference between cursing and cussing: It takes a slow mind to curse, but an active, vibrant mind to cuss. Also, what it means to be stove up...
Anne Louise from San Diego wonders why she and a friend call wishing to see sunlight during long opera-company workdays a pipe dream. A pipe dream is “an unobtainable hope” or “an unrealistic fantasy,” and the phrase comes from opium pipes and the...