Arts & Leisure
Wednesday Jan 19th, 2011
On nuts, spoons, and the metaphors borrowed from sex & food
Last week I mentioned the idiom to be (dead) nuts on ‘to be in love with’ and the verb spoon ‘to make love’ and promised to say something about both. After such a promise our readers must have spent the middle of January in awful suspense. So here goes. The semantic range of many slang words is often broad, but the multitude of senses attested for Engl. <... read more »
Thursday Dec 15th, 2011
Nothing says ‘holidays’ like beer & cheese
You’ve heard of wine and cheese… but how about beer and cheese?
Thursday Dec 8th, 2011
The food and drink we’re wishing for this holiday season
Making our list and checking it twice…
