About this episode

In this episode, Jay and Ray explore the origins of various idioms.

Episode 308: Jay & Ray stitch up a few old idioms. know the ropeshell bent for leatherSubscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & FB. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, film, and video industries. Grab a taste of the groove salad at bigsciencemusic.com some of the W9Y sources include phrase finder uk, word wizard forums,...

People in this episode

Hosts: Jay, Ray

Topics covered

• idioms
• etymology
• language
• culture
• learning

Keywords

• idioms
• etymology
• language
• phrase origins
• cultural expressions

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Organizations: Big Science Music, phrase finder uk, word wizard forums

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