putting pants on one leg at a time
The segment above is from a 1914 ad for a Kansas clothing store — Condon’s, “The...
A series of explorations into the earliest uses of various English words and phrases.
herky-jerky
The term herky-jerky, which has been around since at least 1889, has been widely used in...
first responder
At the Brookline (MA) Historical Society, which I’ve led as a volunteer since 2009, we received...
monkey’s uncle
The Wikipedia entry for “Monkey’s Uncle,” before I edited it, stated that “The phrase has been...
