One linguist (who in his day job specializes in Old Norse) looks at current trends in English and extrapolates into the future a little.
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Rob and Jess “pull out all the stops” in this episode explaining idiom origins.
✈️ Why do we say “balls to the wall” and “push the envelope”?
🐘 What’s so useless about a “white elephant”?
👕 Where were the original “whole nine yards”?
These questions answered and many more in this common sayings special of Words Unravelled.
Here’s our other idioms episode: • Who was the first to “paint the town red”?…
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