Not bad-which, like many phrases, sounds cool when you say it with an English accent-is an example of litotes, or an understatement used for effect. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Expression “Not Bad””...
A TV meterologist in Morehead, Minnesota, wonders about the word sky. Is it incorrect to use it in the plural? We often refer to the skies over a large area, as in “the skies over Kansas.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript...
Goombah, also spelled goomba, can refer to an Italian-American man, sometimes disparagingly. In medical slang, Victoria, a geriatrics fellow in Dallas, has heard goomba for an impressive mass or blotch on an image, as in a lung mass on a chest X-ray...