The phrase he doesn’t know from (something), meaning “he doesn’t know about (something),” is a word-for-word borrowing, or calque, of a Yiddish phrase “Er veys nit fun.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “To Know From Something”...
Would some Hollywood classics still have been box-office hits if they’d stuck with their original names? Take Anhedonia, which later became Annie Hall. Or $3000, which became Pretty Woman. And can you guess the eventual title of the movie originally...
Oh, that gives me agita! A Connecticut native says her Midwestern colleagues office were flabbergasted to encounter this expression, which she’s known all her life. Grant and Martha discuss this word for “upset” and its likely linguistic roots. Hear...
chestal
adj.— «I had once a pain in the chestal area. Now, I was sure it was heartburn.» —“Eggs Benedict” by Woody Allen Standup Comic , 1964-68. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)