Stacey from Chelsea, Massachusetts, says her grandfather, a Russian immigrant who grew up on New York City’s Lower East Side, used to warn his grandkids with what sounded like Don’t be a come-upper after he’d cleaned the apartment. The...
Eric in Tucson, Arizona, hears He’s walking in tall cotton from his wife and wonders what it means. The phrase means things are going well. Tall cotton signals a bumper cotton crop, so farmers who found themselves in it could expect a...
cutes n.pl.— «Bell’s a heartthrob. Tall and handsome, he’s got a Donny Osmond-like dose of the cutes, and, onstage, cute elides into hott.» —“Pearls Before Breakfast” by Gene Weingarten Washington Post Apr. 4...