Word Wrangling with Terry Victor

The final part of the 'endangered' phrases countdown. It's the top 5, and if you don't know already I doubt you'd guess what is at number 1.

Like a good boxset, all the storylines are tied up, and it's open for a sequel. See you on the other side.

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 This is a heartfelt search through the words of war and the language of flowers.

In the company of Shakespeare, Einstein, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan and a Talking Trunk.

"Sweet dreams though the guns are booming."

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From knickers in a twist to nod's as good as a wink; this is the penultimate wrangle with the top 50 'endangered' phrases.

English is rich in idiom and any survey that doesn't include, for instance, 'pinch of salt' should be taken with a pinch of salt. But there are stories to tell.

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2,000 'nationally representative' adults, aged between 18 and 50, settled on a top 50 English phrases they were increasingly indifferent to.  The 'Endangered Sayings' press release is the gift that keeps on giving, 

Part three of this short series runs from 'a few sandwiches short of a picnic' to 'dead as a doornail'.

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The next bunch from that survey of phrases you could be hearing for the last time! There were 50 when I started on part one of this quest; I'm picking up the chart at 39. How far will I get this time? This won't be the last episode, let's put it that way.

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There was a widely reported survey published recently: the 50 most endangered phrases in English. 

It's an odd ragbag of idiomatic marvels., well worth the wrangling, but too many to  handle in a single episode. So this is part one.

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Sometimes a single syllable can change the way we look at the world...

This week's episode includes Mr Blobby, Plumbers, the Royal Family, prime ministers, presidents and councillors. And a whole shedload of scandals.

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There are more dog words in the English language than you can throw a stick for. But when a Big Dog misbehaves  and crops up in the headlines it's time to rub his figurative nose in it.


As a rule Word Wrangling tries to avoid news stories but as rules are obviously made to be bent and broken... if you are a fan of our current prime minister I'd give this episode a miss. 

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From West Side Story to fantastical beasts, the stories of riff-raff fizz with life...

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If you put on weight over Christmas and New Year this episode of Word Wrangling is for you.  Here's a vocabulary for the state and weight we are in... and it's a gut bucket of a feast.

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