Appraise The Phrase

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The show that puts your favorite (or not so favorite) everyday expressions under a microscope and into the hot seat. Tune in as Mario and his special guests dive into the meanings and origins of common sayings, expressions, and idioms. We may introduce you to a few too! Once it's all said and done, will these sayings live up to their common usage or will they crash and burn from some investigation? Join us as we take a moment to appraise the phrase! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 4d ago

    The Season 6 GOAT Phrase Tournament Rankings Episode

    The board is locked. Across Season 6, Mario and Twenty appraised fourteen everyday phrases on power, speed and preference and in the finale they count every one of them down from worst to best, hand out three season awards, and seed the whole field into a tournament bracket. Coach Trav and Fave are on the panel to fight about the results. Only one phrase got a D all season: "on the back burner," ranked 14th. Mario and Twenty defend the grade; Trav argues the back burner is exactly where real life gets put. Four of the fourteen turned out not to mean what they appear to mean. "Call a spade a spade" began with Philip of Macedonia calling a trough a trough in 348 BCE, and the spade in question was a shovel head, not a card suit. "Bigger fish to fry" and "put all your eggs in one basket" were both invented by translators of Don Quixote — the original Spanish has no fish and no eggs. And "train of thought" predates the locomotive entirely; the train comes from a Latin root meaning to pull. Also in this episode: a nick really was an hour, cut into a government tally stick — and when Parliament burned six centuries of those sticks, it burned down the Palace of Westminster with them. Pliny the Elder claimed Cicero saw a copy of Homer's Iliad written small enough to fit inside a nutshell, which is where "in a nutshell" comes from. "Wet my beak" started as a fair Sicilian custom of paying a field guard the grain that fits in a bird's beak, and only became extortion after the phrase crossed to New York. And there was never a whistle baked into a tavern cup — that one is a myth. The season closes with "call a spade a spade" at number one and "talk is cheap" at number two, both holding first-round byes, and a bracket that cannot put "wet my whistle" against "wet my beak" until the championship. Appraise The Phrase returns in March 2027 with the GOAT Phrase Tournament, live.With Coach Trav of Mental Peace Performance, host of The Mental Health Playbook, and Fave. appraisethephrase.com/shop appraisethephrase.com/ATPcommunity Appraise The Phrase unveils the origin, confirms the meaning, and assesses the value of the expressions you use every day. An Underdog Podcasts production, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    The Season 6 GOAT Phrase Tournament Rankings Episode
  2. Nov 4

    Behind The 8 Ball

    This episode of Appraise The Phrase is about the history of the phrase "behind the eight ball". Mario and Twenty are joined by Brandon Miller to unveil the origin, confirm the meaning, and assess the value of "behind the eight ball" and it does not come from the game you are picturing. It comes from Kelly pool, invented in Chicago in 1893 by a man named Calistus Mulvaney, who nobody called Calistus. Sixteen numbered markers, called peas or pills, go into a bottle, and every player draws one in secret before a single shot is taken. That number is your ball, and the balls have to come off the table from lowest to highest. Draw a nine, a ten, a twelve, and you may never get a turn at all. "Behind the eight" was never a position on a table. It was the number in your hand. The game everyone assumes it came from did not exist yet. Eight-ball arrives around 1940, and the phrase is already in American newspapers through the 1920s. Steve Mizerak, a multi-time world billiards champion, went on record with it plainly: it cannot come from the game, because the phrase predates the game. And when the version we know was first marketed, the set contained seven balls of one color, seven of another, and one unnumbered black ball. The eight ball did not have an eight on it. Then the eight ball outgrows pool entirely. In 1946 a man in Cincinnati patents a fortune-telling device built from his clairvoyant mother's spirit-writing slate. It is called the Syco-Slate, it is a cylinder, and it fails completely. He dies before the patent clears in 1948, having never seen a single sale. In 1950 Brunswick Billiards asks for it rebuilt in the shape of a black-and-white eight ball, and that is the Magic 8 Ball, now on TIME's list of the hundred greatest toys of all time. The object cemented in your head was never about billiards. Brandon Miller runs Stepping In The Right Direction out of Los Angeles — HBCU tours, mentoring programs, and more than twenty-five million dollars in scholarships facilitated over five years. He puts the phrase to work on his own life: a conditional acceptance to Howard in March 2001, ten weeks left in the semester, and a 46 percent in a math class he had to get to 70. His read is that sometimes it is your own shot that puts you behind the eight ball, and not somebody else putting you there. Also in this episode: what the San Francisco school board voted to change and why all three of them think it is the wrong fix, the eight-ball jacket that sold for twelve hundred dollars in Harlem, Bow Tie Wednesday, and a Dictionary of Misinformation entry about bulls and the color red. Then the appraisal. Power, speed and preference. Guest: Brandon Miller, Stepping In The Right Direction. HBCU tours and spring trip dates at hbcuboundhub.org, and @strdprograms and @hbcuboundhub on Instagram. Watch the video version on the Underdog Podcasts channel on YouTube. Every phrase gets a grade, and some of them get a mug: appraisethephrase.com/shop Appraise The Phrase is part of the Underdog Podcast Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Behind The 8 Ball
  3. Oct 31

    Put All Your Eggs In One Basket

    Mario and Twenty unveil the origin, confirm the meaning, and assess the value of "put all your eggs in one basket" — and it does not start on a farm. The oldest record in English is from 1662, in Giovanni Torriano's The Second Alphabet of Proverbial Phrases. Torriano was an Italian language teacher in London compiling Italian proverbs for English readers, and his entry reads: "to put all one's eggs in a panyard, viz. to hazard all in one bottom." A panyard is a basket. A bottom, in 1662, is a ship — not a crate in the hold, the hold itself. So the original warning is about putting all your cargo in one vessel, in an era when marine lending was real and there was no second ship. Then there is Cervantes, who gets three hundred years of credit he never earned. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations puts the eggs line in Sancho Panza's mouth. Go to Thomas Shelton's translation, the first into any language, and there are no eggs in it at all. What Sancho actually says is that the wise reserve something for tomorrow without venturing all upon one cast — and one cast means dice. Cervantes was writing about gambling. The eggs arrive a century later, when Peter Motteux swaps in an English proverb because he assumes English readers will not follow the Spanish one. Dice is a bet you chose. A basket is a thing you are carrying. The metaphor got gentler in translation. In 1894 Mark Twain wrote the most famous inversion of any proverb in American letters: the fool scatters his eggs, the wise man puts them all in one basket and watches it. That same stretch, one concentrated bet on the Paige typesetting machine destroyed him financially. He watched the basket. It took everything anyway. In 1952 a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at the University of Chicago settled the argument with math instead of philosophy, and won a Nobel for it. If you have a 401(k), there is a default fund in it you never chose, and it exists because of Harry Markowitz's paper. Also in this episode: what "China pays the tariff" has in common with an eighteenth-century translator, why ignorance is bliss might be the most powerful phrase ever spoken, Twenty ranking the holidays as the Miami Heat Big Three, and a Dictionary of Misinformation entry about the fan in your window. Then the appraisal — impact, speed and preference. The two of them do not start in the same place. Watch the video version on the Underdog Podcasts channel on YouTube. Every phrase gets a grade, and some of them get a mug: appraisethephrase.com/shop Appraise The Phrase is part of the Underdog Podcast Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
  4. Oct 21

    Knocking On The Devil's Door

    On this episode of Appraise The Phrase: Origins of Everyday Expressions... Six dictionaries have no definition for "knocking on the devil's door." We found out why — and then we found the actual door. Where does "knocking on the devil's door" come from, and what does it actually mean? Merriam-Webster, Cambridge, Oxford, Collins, dictionary.com and TheFreeDictionary all come up empty — the first phrase in six seasons of this show that no published dictionary will touch. Wiktionary's only nearby entry is "devil's doorbell," which is something else entirely. So we went looking for the origin ourselves. There is a real devil's door: a sealed entrance on the north wall of medieval English churches, including Durham Cathedral, built to be used and then bricked shut. But the name is nowhere near as old as the door. The earliest record of anyone calling one a "devil's door" comes from an 1832 demolition in Nottinghamshire — three centuries after the doors went up, when nobody could remember what they were for and the Victorians were ready with an explanation. Along the way: why Terrence Howard's line in Four Brothers is where most people have actually heard this phrase, how Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" swallowed the devil version whole, and why the Robert Johnson crossroads legend belongs to a different bluesman named Tommy Johnson. Mario and Twenty are joined by cunda, Rello and angie of Circle The Block — Where Culture and Nostalgia Come Full Circle — for the phrase submitted by Coach Trav of The Mental Health Playbook. Both shows are Underdog Podcasts affiliates. An etymology podcast on the origins of everyday expressions. Every episode we unveil the origin, confirm the meaning, and assess the value. This one graded out at a B−.Value is in the eye of the appraiser. Shop: appraisethephrase.com/shop Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Knocking On The Devil's Door
  5. Oct 14

    If The Shoe Fits

    The man who coined this phrase had already been pilloried and imprisoned for writing satire people took literally. So the next time he went after Parliament, he built himself an escape hatch. On this episode of Appraise The Phrase, Mario and Twenty unveil the origin, confirm the meaning, and assess the value of “if the shoe fits.” It starts in 1705 with Daniel Defoe — printed in London under the pretense that it came from Danzig, credited to an author who didn't exist, because the poem was a direct attack on the English Parliament. Defoe names nobody in it. He just writes that if a member recognizes himself in the satire, that recognition is the reader's act, not the writer's accusation. Twenty's read: he invented the disclaimer. Then the phrase crosses the Atlantic. May 1773, the New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, a city weeks from tearing itself apart over the Tea Act, in the one genre where anonymity did the most work. And somewhere in that crossing, the object changes. Also: the Cinderella theory and why it doesn't hold, the 1773 subtweet, what Google didn't bother correcting, and a Dictionary of Misinformation entry that will make you check your own vocabulary. 0:00 Green Goblin, Family Matters, And A Late Submission1:03 The ATP Intro Theme1:42 What's Good: LA, Venice Beach, And Morning Walks7:02 Shout Out To Mo And The Event8:01 Today's Phrase: If The Shoe Fits10:25 Twenty: It Went From Positive To Negative13:07 Mario Wrote This Episode From A Negative Place14:27 Shout Out To Kayla And Kinara Books15:27 Nobody Says “Wear It” Anymore16:19 You Already Have The Shoe On16:59 Confirm The Meaning: Four Dictionaries This Time18:00 The Last-Minute Submission Always Wins21:33 Which Ones Are Negative And Which Are Neutral22:05 Twenty Picks Two Dictionaries — A First22:53 Unveil The Origin: 1705, Daniel Defoe23:12 The Green Goblin Problem24:41 Printed In London, Credited To A Man Who Didn't Exist26:09 Defoe Had Already Been Pilloried For Satire27:13 A Legal Deniability Device28:56 “He Invented The Disclaimer”29:38 Have You Ever Jumped In Front Of A Bullet Nobody Fired?31:27 You Gotta Show Me My ID In The Film35:14 Are You Slower To Anger Now?36:07 Why A Point Of No Return Is A Good Thing37:28 Crashing Out, And The Flu Game Meme38:43 May 1773: The Cap Becomes A Shoe40:23 The Defensive Character Genre41:26 Hugh Gaine, The Printer Who Stayed Neutral42:46 Influence Before Influencers43:00 The Tea Act And A City About To Break44:41 The Original Subtweet45:22 Twenty's Twitter Era50:25 The Cinderella Hypothesis52:00 Why The Case Against It Is Stronger54:50 Google Didn't Correct The Story Either56:33 Pop Culture Impact: The Top Four57:30 #1 Hamilton, Cabinet Battle #158:37 The Appraisal1:00:45 Dictionary Of Misinformation: The Subconscious Isn't Freudian1:02:23 Closing Thoughts1:02:55 Shop, Partners, And Credits REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODEDaniel Defoe, The Diet of Poland (1705) · Daniel Defoe, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) · New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, May 1773 · Hugh Gaine, printer · Alexander McDougall writing as “Hampden,” New York Journal (1773) · Giambattista Basile, Pentamerone (1634) · Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854) · Hamilton, “Cabinet Battle #1” · Spider-Man (2002) · Family Matters COMMENT: Have you ever gotten defensive about something nobody was actually saying about you? And settle this — is a subtweet a disclaimer or a coward move? ATP SHOP — every phrase gets a grade. Some of them get a mug.appraisethephrase.com/shop Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    If The Shoe Fits
  6. Oct 7

    Go Against The Grain

    The first person to say “against the grain” was lying. Not figuratively. He was coaching other people to lie, and the phrase was the lie. On this episode of Appraise The Phrase, Mario and Twenty are joined by Kayla, founder of Kinara Bookstore in Tulsa, to unveil the origin, confirm the meaning, and assess the value of “go against the grain.” It debuts in Shakespeare's Coriolanus around 1607, in the mouth of Sicinius — a tribune coaching Roman citizens to claim they'd been pressured into their vote, and that speaking up went against the grain. They were doing exactly what authority wanted. The first recorded figurative use of the phrase describes someone going with the grain. Mario's name for it is inverted debut. And the carpentry story everyone repeats? Every source on earth says this comes from woodworking. Gary Martin appears to be the only person who actually checked, and none of the early citations reference wood at all — the carpentry explanation only shows up after Shakespeare. It's not what you know. It's what you can prove. Also: why the play itself is about grain, how a phrase gets rationalized backwards, what clickbait did to writing, and Kayla on opening a bookstore in the gap left when Tulsa's only Black bookstore closed. Value is in the eye of the appraiser. 0:00 Gladiator, Holograms, And What You Can Prove0:51 The ATP Intro Theme2:30 Introducing Our Guest3:44 Kayla On Founding Kinara Bookstore In Tulsa7:17 Who Decides What The Rules Are?15:11 Confirm The Meaning: Merriam-Webster18:11 Twenty Would Have Written It Differently22:28 Unveil The Origin: 1607, Coriolanus23:33 Our First Hologram Guest Should Be Shakespeare23:53 Sicinius, The Tribune, And The Coached Lie25:47 The Play Is Literally About Grain: The Corn Riot28:34 Inverted Debut: The First Use Was Inauthentic33:47 Kayla Does Not Fly Southwest37:54 Every Source On Earth Says Carpentry38:45 Gary Martin Is The Only One Who Checked39:51 Retroactive Etymological Rationalization42:16 Seed Oils, And Things That Sound True44:34 What Clickbait Did To Writing51:39 Is Any Of This Real? Clickbait Meets AI53:20 À Rebours, Bad Religion, And Garth Brooks55:44 Evaluative Reversal: When The Act Stops Mattering57:36 Do You Own “Going Against The Grain”?58:44 Building A Space For Us, By Us1:00:40 Twenty: Save The Last Dance1:04:23 The Phrase As A Banner People Wave1:08:23 The Appraisal: Power1:11:12 Speed1:12:07 Preference, Handed To The Guest1:13:31 Dictionary Of Misinformation1:15:04 The Kremlin Is Not A Building1:16:11 Where To Find Kinara Bookstore1:17:43 Shop, Credits, And Where To Find Us REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODEWilliam Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607–08) · Plutarch, via North's translation · Merriam-Webster · Dictionary.com · Gary Martin, Phrase Finder · J.-K. Huysmans, À rebours (1884), published in English as Against the Grain · Bad Religion, Against the Grain (1990) · Garth Brooks, “Against the Grain,” written by Bruce Bouton, Larry Cordle and Carl Jackson · Marion Nestle, NYU · Gladiator (2000) · Training Day (2001) · Save the Last Dance (2001) GUEST: Kayla, founder of Kinara Bookstore — Tulsa's pop-up bookstore centering Black, brown, queer and disabled readers. Instagram, Threads and TikTok @kinara.books · kinarabookstore.com COMMENT: Have you ever actually gone against the grain, or did you just say you did? And settle this for us — open seating or assigned? ATP SHOP — every phrase gets a grade. Some of them get a mug.appraisethephrase.com/shop THE BRACKET — the board keeps filling. Tournament comes March 2027. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Go Against The Grain
  7. Sep 30

    Wet My Whistle

    Everybody thinks medieval pubs had cups with whistles baked into them. You blew the whistle, you got a refill. It's a great story and somebody made it up. On this episode, Mario and Twenty are joined by Myron to trace the origin, confirm the meaning, and assess the value of "wet my whistle." The whistle was never an object. It was your throat; a usage running through Beaumont and Fletcher, where you could "cut your whistle," and all the way back to Chaucer in 1386. The cup came later, invented backwards to explain a phrase people no longer understood. Mario's term for it is retroactive prop invention. Then there's the H. "Whet your whistle" shows up in Thomas Flatman's Belly God in 1674 and never leaves, because whet sounds more literate than wet — a 350-year hypercorrection that people still defend today. Also: the requirements for a proper swig, why nobody can agree on what a thumbs-up means, the dietary guidelines dropping their actual numbers, medieval life as imprisonment by civilization, and a Dictionary of Misinformation entry that will change how you sit in meetings. 0:00 The Departed, Cranberry Juice, And A Phrase We Might Have To Retire0:44 The ATP Intro Theme1:33 Myron's In The Building1:58 Spoke Too Soon About The Sports Teams8:39 The Requirements For A Proper Swig9:24 Preferably Over 32 Ounces11:45 Ain't Nobody Going Out For Cranberry Juice14:03 Myron Has Been In The Store Too Long16:41 Unveil The Origin: Chaucer, 1386 (Content Warning)18:00 "So Was Her Jolly Whistle Well Wet"22:25 The Northern Clerks And Tolkien's Paper On The Reeve's Tale26:41 Rules We Enforce And Don't Follow27:57 Text Me, Don't Call Me29:00 Don't Read My Texts In A James Earl Jones Voice29:08 The Thumbs-Up Problem33:20 Emoji Etiquette In The Group Chat34:24 Confirm The Meaning: Beaumont And Fletcher, "Cut Your Whistle"36:39 Thomas Flatman's Belly God, 167437:19 Wet vs. Whet: 350 Years Of Trying To Sound Smarter39:25 The Dietary Guidelines Dropped The Actual Numbers43:39 Myron Amends His Take46:07 The Myth: Cups With Whistles Baked In47:05 Twenty: Medieval Life Was A Prison49:10 Retroactive Prop Invention50:56 "Am I Gonna Have To Stop Saying Wet My Whistle?"52:43 Myron's Hit List: It Is What It Is53:51 Why Won't You Explain Your Real Reasoning?56:16 Capacity, And Having Your Own Stuff Going On59:25 Using A Phrase To Avoid Confrontation59:52 Pop Culture Impact: The Top Four1:01:47 #1 Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade1:02:19 The Appraisal1:07:30 Dictionary Of Misinformation: Meeting Minutes1:09:50 Shop, Credits, And Where To Find Us REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODEGeoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale (c. 1386) · John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse (1530) · The Towneley Plays · Beaumont and Fletcher · Thomas Flatman, Belly God (1674) · Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742) · J.R.R. Tolkien, "Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale," Transactions of the Philological Society · Michael Quinion, World Wide Words · The Departed (2006) · To Have and Have Not (1944) · Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) COMMENT: Wet or whet — which are you, and are you prepared to defend it? And settle this for us: what does a thumbs-up actually mean? ATP SHOP: every phrase gets a grade. Some of them get a mug.appraisethephrase.com/shopTHE BRACKET: the board is filling up. Tournament comes March 2027.Subscribe to Appraise The Phrase on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheUnderdogAppraise The Phrase official site: appraisethephrase.comCheck out our other ATP produced shows: appraisethephrase.com/communityFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theappraisethephraseshowFollow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@appraisethephraseFollow us on X/Twitter: https://x.com/TheATPShow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Wet My Whistle
  8. Sep 23

    In The Nick of Time

    On this episode of Appraise The Phrase, Mario and Twenty trace the origin of "in the nick of time" and explains how it started out as pudding time. It starts in 1546 with John Heywood's book of proverbs, where arriving "in pudding time" meant showing up right as dinner started — because in the 16th century, pudding was savory, closer to sausage than dessert, and it was served first. Then pudding drifted to the end of the meal, and the phrase stopped making sense. The phrase never changed. The world did. Enter the nick: a notch cut into a tally stick, the wooden receipts the English Exchequer kept for centuries. And in 1834, when officials finally burned the obsolete sticks in the furnaces beneath the House of Lords, they burned down Parliament with them. The thing that gave us the phrase went up in smoke. The phrase survived. Also: Merriam-Webster watching too much Indiana Jones, referential collapse, the leap second being abolished right now, what you still say about yourself that stopped being true, and why we all keep the bags under the sink. 0:00 Indiana Jones, Janice, Drake, And The Nick Of Time0:51 The ATP Intro Theme1:37 What's Good: Football Season Is Here2:34 The Dolphins, Malik Willis, And Quarterback Fit9:07 Yes, This Is Still A Word Show10:28 Today's Phrase: In The Nick Of Time13:14 Twenty: This Phrase Is Janice From Accounting15:03 Confirm The Meaning: Merriam-Webster vs. Cambridge16:01 Trim The Fat: What A Definition Should Actually Do16:53 Merriam-Webster Has Been Watching Too Much Indiana Jones19:03 Unveil The Origin: Before The Nick, There Was Pudding Time20:44 1546: John Heywood's Book Of Proverbs21:46 Pudding Was Sausage — And It Came First22:53 How Pudding Became Dessert And Broke The Phrase24:55 Referential Collapse: When The World Leaves A Phrase Behind26:00 What Do You Still Say About Yourself That Stopped Being True?30:37 Performative Caring In The Social Media Era31:37 Mario: I Still Tell People I'm An Athlete33:43 Twenty Has Been Avoiding Fences On Purpose36:29 The Tudors Want Something Sharper: Golding, Ovid, And "Nick"37:58 What Even Is A Notch? The Exchequer's Tally Sticks39:13 So The Teachers Were Wrong40:05 The Leap Second Is Being Abolished42:12 What Would You Let Drift, And What Would You Never Let Go?46:42 1834: The Nick Burns Down Parliament49:05 Turner Painted It From A Boat On The Thames49:24 Infrastructural Afterlife: A Fossil Metaphor49:54 What Have You Held Onto Past Its Usefulness?50:38 Keep The Bags Under The Sink, Throw Away The Boxes52:27 Pop Culture #4: Every Film Called In The Nick Of Time53:22 #3: The In The Nick Of Time Clock In Newport, Wales53:51 #2 Charles Dickens / #1 Turner's The Burning Of The Houses Of Lords And Commons54:59 The Appraisal: Impact56:04 Speed57:30 Preference59:58 Dictionary Of Misinformation: Typhoid Mary1:00:30 Closing REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODEJohn Heywood, A Dialogue Conteynyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue (1546) · Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732) · Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1565–67) · Caroline Shenton, The Day Parliament Burned Down (2012) · J.M.W. Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835) · Charles Dickens, speech to the Administrative Reform Association (1855) · IERS Bulletin C · Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) · Wanted (2008) COMMENT: What do you still say about yourself that stopped being true? And what are you holding onto long past its usefulness — bags under the sink count. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    In The Nick of Time

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The show that puts your favorite (or not so favorite) everyday expressions under a microscope and into the hot seat. Tune in as Mario and his special guests dive into the meanings and origins of common sayings, expressions, and idioms. We may introduce you to a few too! Once it's all said and done, will these sayings live up to their common usage or will they crash and burn from some investigation? Join us as we take a moment to appraise the phrase! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.