Let’s put the moose on the table: You have questions, and Grant and Martha have answers. For example, why would someone have an albatross around the neck? And what’s so cool about bees’ knees, anyway? Plus, jockey boxes...
Paul from Duluth, Minnesota, heard Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, quoting Boston Mayor Tom Menino, call a health-care law an alcatraz around his neck. The idiom is albatross around your neck, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the...