Alan, who grew up in eastern North Carolina, remembers his mother saying jubous when she distrusted a claim or felt doubtful about a situation. The word appears in spellings such as jubous, jubus, dubous, and dubus, all reflecting dialect...
A restaurant review in the Myanmar Times describes a steak that “could not have been more middle-of-the-road if it was glued to a cat’s eye.” This analogy makes sense only if you know that “cat’s eye” is a term...
If you can make neither moss nor sand of something, then if you can’t make sense of it. This phrase is particularly common in Northern England. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Neither Moss Nor Sand” We were...