Pleased As Punch
08/28/21 • 26 min
Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss Harry Styles and murderous puppets, and Ingrid does a Southern accent.
Sources:
https://grammarist.com/idiom/as-pleased-as-punch/
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ple1.htm
https://www.thekitchn.com/why-do-we-say-pleased-as-punch-238364
https://www.vogue.com/article/what-might-harry-styles-new-beauty-line-look-like
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/racist-phrases-origins-language-20200610.html
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/
We'd love to research your favorite idiom! Email us at [email protected] or slide into our DMs on Instagram @TheLanguageLie. Closed caption available on Youtube.
Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss Harry Styles and murderous puppets, and Ingrid does a Southern accent.
Sources:
https://grammarist.com/idiom/as-pleased-as-punch/
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ple1.htm
https://www.thekitchn.com/why-do-we-say-pleased-as-punch-238364
https://www.vogue.com/article/what-might-harry-styles-new-beauty-line-look-like
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/racist-phrases-origins-language-20200610.html
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/
We'd love to research your favorite idiom! Email us at [email protected] or slide into our DMs on Instagram @TheLanguageLie. Closed caption available on Youtube.
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Sources:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/be-on-a-roll
https://www.idioms.online/on-a-roll/https://www.britannica.com/topic/dicehttps://www.idioms.online/origin-of-the-expression-on-a-roll/
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=on%20onehttps://www.theidioms.com/on-a-roll/https://books.google.com/ngrams
Three Mile Island, Radioactive Waste Disposal Resulting from Mar.1979 Accident, Unit 2 - Environmental Impact Statement · Volume 3
Legitimacy in the Modern State By John H. Schaar · 1981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_Roll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craps
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/
We'd love to research your favorite idiom! Email us at [email protected] or slide into our DMs on Instagram @TheLanguageLie. Closed caption available on Youtube.
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Sources:
https://grammarist.com/phrase/have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can%27t_have_your_cake_and_eat_ithttp://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002762.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/magazine/20FOB-onlanguage-t.html
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/
https://www.quora.com/In-Swedish-how-do-you-say-youre-welcome/answer/Anders-D-H-Pemer
We'd love to research your favorite idiom! Email us at [email protected] or slide into our DMs on Instagram @TheLanguageLie. Closed caption available on Youtube.
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