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Reverse Ferret!

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on August 24, 2025August 12, 2025

Swedish has a phrase, coined in 2002 when a politician (Jan O. Karlsson) was rude…

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Antiquated phrases

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on July 23, 2025July 21, 2025

a month of Sundays damn it Janet exqueeze me I’ll file that in my mental…

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Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 23, 2025May 22, 2025

The Chinese equivalent of this would be from peasant shoes to peasant shoes in three…

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No cow on the ice

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 5, 2024October 30, 2024
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Rickrolling

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on March 5, 2024January 16, 2024

Rickrolling is an internet meme. If you click on a link that leads to the Rick…

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It took me a long time to get this. How fast can you figure it out?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on August 30, 2023August 14, 2023
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Common phrases in their complete form

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on September 4, 2022August 14, 2022

  A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than…

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The answers to yesterday’s puzzle

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 30, 2022November 18, 2023
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How many figures of speech can you recognise?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 29, 2022June 11, 2022

I will post the answers tomorrow!

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Eggcorns

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 20, 2022May 27, 2022

The misuse of certain phrases in English is something that really gets my goat. Some…

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