There's a fun little book on the shelf I received for Christmas one year from my sister, Yvonne. It's entitled, "Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pajamas." The reason this came to mind was some recent conversations with yes, younger folks who don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about when it comes to time honored expressions--idioms. My husband told a server in a recent restaurant visit that she was "Johnny on the spot" with our drinks and received a zombie-like look. In this terribly technical age of texts, emails, with acronyms to cover a range of phrases, such as lol, omg, btw,ayk are the norm. If you want my opinion, I think it's just plain sad. We're losing the fun of English, which as you know is a difficult and irregular sort of language. However, when people actually had conversations with each other, lots of of colorful expressions were used to keep things interesting. Most of them came from real life which also he...
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