If something needs to be carefully extracted, you’ll want to winkle it out. This Britishism comes from winkles, those edible snails that must be gingerly pulled out of their shells. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Winkle it Out”
Grant, do you know the expression, winkle out?
Like, you might winkle out information from your teenager about what he really did last night, sort of to extract, or you can winkle out an incumbent in office.
It’s mostly a Britishism, and it comes from the idea of winkles, you know, those sea snails that are edible and how you have to extract them, you know, with some care.
A little curbing motion to pull them out in one piece.
Yeah, to winkle out.
Interesting.
I loved winkling out the meaning of that expression.
Very good, winkling out.
