Ask a Roman! A theater student from Texas is having an argument with a friend about the word vomitorium. He says that in ancient Rome, a vomitorium was a room where revelers went to purge after overindulging at the banquet table. True? This is part...
break off v. phr.— «Tell me the scores, don’t “break me off a little sumpin, sumpin. Give me information, don’t “bust out with the 411.”» —“Huge Fax of the Day” Jim Rome Show Jan. 15, 1997. (source:...
food insecurity n.— «In the past, the concept of food security could never become a cultural value, because food insecurity was then the norm. Only more recently, since it has been shown that enough food could be produced to satisfy all...
