After typing Are you shining me on? Wendy in Aloha, Oregon, wondered whether shine might carry the same sting as an offensive racial slur. In this use, to shine someone on means to bluff, delude, fool, or sometimes ignore, and it appears to be...
Hockey mom? Staycation? Recessionista? What’s your choice for Word of the Year 2008? Also, what expression do you use to describe when it’s raining but the sun is still shining?
For rain falling while the sun is shining, Elizabeth in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, grew up hearing her Georgia-born mother say the devil’s beating his wife. There are many, many variants, including the devil is beating his wife with a frying pan, the...