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A podcast that takes a look at the origin and history of some of those gems of language, idioms, and then goes from there.

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Sheep Idioms

2026/10/11

Ram in the thicket; Sacrificial lamb; Scapegoat; Whipping boy; Like a lamb to the slaughter; Wolf in sheep's clothing; Separate the sheep from the goats; Lost sheep; Black sheep; Dyed-in-the-wool; True blue; Pull the wool over someone's eyes; Make sheep eye's at someone; Counting sheep; All cry and no wool; All bite and no bark; Mutton dressed as lamb; Two shakes of a lamb's tail; Bellwether

Insect Idioms, Part II: Nits make lice; Nitpicking; Flyspecking; Fly on the wall; Bug; Fly on the wheel; The ant and the grasshopper; Fly in the buttermilk; Fly in the ointment; Ants in your pants

2026/10/03

Antsy; Knee-high to a grasshopper; Knee-high to a junebug; Like a duck on a junebug; Crazy as a junebug; Not enough brains to saddle a junebug; Cuter than a Junebug; Cute as a bug; Cute as a bug's ear; Crickets...

Insect Idioms, I: The birds and the bees; Busy as a bee; Make a beeline; Bee in your bonnet; Bug in your ear; None of your beeswax; The bee's knees; Strain at a gnat; Down to a gnat's eyebrow

2026/09/22

Kill a fly with an elephant gun;

Hill and Mountain Idioms: Over hill and dale; Make a mountain out of a molehill; What in the sam hill; King of the hill; Over the hill; Old as the hills; Move mountains; Mountain oysters; Mountain Dew

2026/09/12

If the mountain won’t come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain; Willing to die on that hill

Flower Idioms: Gild the lily; Paint the lily; Lily-white; Lily-livered; Pushing up daisies; Whoops-a-daisy; Ups-a-daisy; Fresh as a daisy; Shrinking Violet; Wallflower

2025/08/26

Pigeon-livered; Oops-a-daisy; Oops; Whoops.

Butterfly and butter idioms, and suck it up buttercup! -- Butterflies in your stomach; social butterfly; the butterfly effect; suck it up buttercup; butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth;

2025/08/07

Gaudy as a butterfly; break a butterfly on a wheel; kill a gnat with a sledgehammer; bread always falls on the buttered side; bread and butter; butterface; butter someone up

Hook Idioms: By hook or by crook; On tenterhooks; Hooking up; Hookers; Get you hooks into somebody; Meathooks; Swallow something hook, line, and sinker; Wriggle off the hook; Off the Hook; On the Hook

2025/07/31

Let someone off the hook; Ringing off the hook; Wriggle out of

Pig Idioms: Pig in a Poke; Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered; Hogwash; You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear; Lipstick on a pig; wrestling with pigs; Happy as a pig in mud

2025/07/24

Don't cast your pearls before swine; Like pigs in clover; Go hog wild; Hog heaven; Greedy pig; Pig out; Eat like a pig; Make a pig of oneself; Selfish pig; Go whole hog

Cycling Idioms: Along for the ride; Backpedal; Freewheeling; Take off the training wheels; Fifth wheel or third wheel; Shift gears; Spin one's wheels; Back in the saddle; Handlebar moustache;

2024/05/12

Woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle; Just like riding a bike; Soft-pedal; Cyclopath

Stick Idioms: Short end of the stick; Get hit with the stupid stick; Fiddlesticks!; Wrong end of the stick; Stick in the mud; Beat them off with a stick;

2024/05/02

Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick; Speak softly and carry a big stick; More XYZ than you can shake a stick at;.

Moon Idioms: Moonstruck; Moonshine; Once in a blue moon; Moonlight; Hang the moon; Shoot for the moon; Mooning away, over, around, or about;

2024/04/21

Over the moon; The moon is made of green cheese; Love you to the moon and back; Shoot the moon; Moonshot; Ask for the moon; Moon on a stick; Cast beyond the moon; Barking at the moon; Harvest moon; Blood moon; Moon-faced; Moongazing

Pots and Pans Idioms, Part II: Pot calling the kettle black; Melting pot; Stirring the pot; Jackpot; Crackpot; Different kettle of fish; Tempest in a teapot; Keep the pot boiling; Potluck

2023/11/04

Potpourri; Perpetual stew; Potlatch; Pot of gold at the end of a rainbow; Tosspot; Fusspot; Honeypot; Sexpot; Pretty kettle of fish

Pots and Pans Idioms, Part I: Flash in the pan; Out of the frying pan into the fire; Pan out; Pan over; Pan as criticism; Deadpan; Going to pot; Potshot

2023/10/20

Pothunter; Down the pan; Down the toilet; Cast iron skillets

US President Idioms, Part 6: Bloviation; Normalcy; America First; Lightning in a bottle; Americanism; Founding Fathers

2023/10/07

Dollar Diplomacy; Panda Diplomacy; Writing history with lightning; Bottled lightning; THE Congress

Gauntlets, Gamuts, and Gloves: Run the gauntlet; Run the gamut; Throw down the gauntlet; Take up the gauntlet; Step into the breach; Take off the gloves; Rule with a velvet glove

2023/09/18

Once more unto the breach; More honored in the breach than the observance; Drop the gloves; Gloves are off; Iron fist in a velvet glove; Next into the breach; Run the gantlet

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TS_45 2023/05/15

Very unique!

Really cool podcast. A nice idea that is really informative and well executed. I’ll be a regular listener for sure.

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XXCSKIER 2021/09/05

Great Idea

I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I love words and etemology is a hobby of mine. Understanding the origin of idioms is like...

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