The Language Lie

Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss Emily Post, the history of dice, and the 90s. 





Sources: 
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/be-on-a-roll
https://www.idioms.online/on-a-roll/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/dice
https://www.idioms.online/origin-of-the-expression-on-a-roll/
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=on%20one
https://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/

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Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss monkeys, creationists, and Casey and Ingrid's very different days. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%27s_uncle
https://www.idioms.online/ill-be-a-monkeys-uncle/
https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mon3.htm
https://thevillageidiom.org/ill-be-a-monkeys-uncle/
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/

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Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss the nature of time, bad British accents, and people who are a little bananas.

Sources:

https://www.dogster.com/lifestyle/7-more-common-dog-idioms-explained
https://www.quora.com/What-does-historical-time-mean-for-social-theorists-and-philosophers
https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/off-your-rocker
http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=18057
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6967/why-off-his-rocker
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/

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Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss Old English, cold things, and tips for sociopaths. 




Sources: 
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/break-the-ice
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/break+the+ice
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/break-the-ice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebreaker
https://wordhistories.net/2017/08/05/break-the-ice-origin/
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/break-the-ice.html
Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare ( 1594)
Hudibras  - Samuel Butler (1664)
https://brightside.me/inspiration-psychology/the-13-best-ways-to-break-the-ice-340210/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_the_Ice_(song)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icebreaker_(facilitation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/

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Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss cotton, dairy cows, and Porgy & Bess. 

Sources:

https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/5476/why-the-difference-in-depiction-of-the-cross-between-catholics-and-protestants
https://www.hottytoddy.com/2014/05/19/13-southern-sayings-that-the-rest-of-america-wont-understand/
https://www.marketplace.org/2014/07/23/high-cotton-and-southern-language/
https://thesouthernc.com/livin-in-high-cotton/
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/_/mdict.aspx?h=1&word=in+high+cotton
https://grammarist.com/idiom/in-tall-cotton-and-in-high-cotton/
https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/46/messages/940.html
https://idiomation.wordpress.com/tag/in-high-cotton/
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/

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Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss bears, wolves, and Odin. 



Sources:
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/go-berserk.html
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20berserk
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2018/06/berserk.html
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/go+berserk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/

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Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss caffeine, Victorians, poets...and more horses. 

Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ringer_(idiom)
https://www.theidioms.com/dead-ringer/
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dead-ringer.html
https://grammarist.com/idiom/dead-ringer
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/

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Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss horses, canaries, and live music.



Sources:
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/put-the-cart-before-the-horse.html
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/put%20the%20cart%20before%20the%20horse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cart_before_the_horse
https://www.theidioms.com/put-the-cart-before-the-horse/
https://books.google.com/ngrams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian
https://www.theoi.com/Text/LucianDialoguesDead1.html
“Cart Before the Horse.” A Hog on Ice: And Other Curious Expressions, by Charles Earle Funk and Tom Funk, Quill, 2001. 
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/put-the-cart-before-the-horse.html
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/

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Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss kolaches and Ingrid’s favorite subject: dog-related idioms.

Sources:

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/at-home-and-away-with-the-fairies-an-irishman-s-diary-on-the-globalisation-of-a-hiberno-english-phrase-1.3474117
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_a_Horse_(Ride_a_Cowboy)
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/that+dog+won%27t+hunt
https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/that-dog-wont-hunt
https://yourislandnews.com/this-dog-wont-huntand-other-dog-related-idioms/
https://holidaybarn.com/blog/dog-idioms-history-and-meanings/
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/

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Join Casey and Ingrid as they discuss drunk animals, why you should put gas in a car if you borrow it, and Casey makes (many) bad puns.



Sources:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/collective-false-memories-whats-behind-the-mandela-effect
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-alcoholics-of-the-animal-world-81007700/
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/have+a+bone+to+pick+with
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bone-to-pick
https://www.bartleby.com/81/4395.html
"Comedy of Errors" - Shakespeare (1594)
"Hudibras" - Butler (1663)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/have_a_bone_to_pick
"Answer to the Treatise of the Crosse against John Martiall" - James Calfhill (1565)
"Dictionary of Dates and Universal Reference Relating to All Ages and Nations Comprehending Every Remarkable Occurrence, Ancient and Modern, the Foundation, Laws, and Governments of Countries ... with Copious Details of England, Scotland and Ireland, the Whole Comprehending a Body of Information, Classical, Political and Domestic, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time" - Joseph Haydn (1845)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn
https://books.google.com/ngrams
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/

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