Michelle in Thorne Bay, Alaska, uses nervous Nellie for herself on snowy roads and wonders who Nellie was. The expression, meaning a timid or overly cautious person, shows up in the early 1920s and was popularized in political talk about Frank B...
Michelle in Thorne Bay, Alaska, uses nervous Nellie for herself on snowy roads and wonders who Nellie was. The expression, meaning a timid or overly cautious person, shows up in the early 1920s and was popularized in political talk about Frank B...
