You can’t say that: Under the Wire
When a friend asked me about the expression “under the wire” I just had to learn more.
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You Can’t Say That: Get Your Back Up
The phrase “get your back up” is one of those expressions we use all the time without thinking much about where it came from or what it really means.
Continue reading →You Can’t Say That~A bit of Pother
Here we go, deep into the rabbit hole again, with a unique, and possibly unfamiliar phrase! So could or would my characters have said “A bit of pother”?
Continue reading →You Can’t Say That~Cut off your nose
Do you think “Cut off your nose to spite your face” was said back in the Victorian era?
Continue reading →You Can’t Say That~Pulling out all the stops
This week’s entry is ‘Pulling out all the stops’ which actually has a pretty interesting history.
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