What Do you REALLY Mean?

Today's post is a trivial one. Coming off a board game night this weekend with friends, most of you likely know that I am a big one on word puzzles. If playing on my tablet, I am more apt to be working on a crossword app than Angry Birds - my brain does much better than my motor skills.

Thus this feed from Mental Floss which is a knowledge podcast that explores tangents of all angles. The edition is looking at Idioms of the English language. If that is a foreign word to any of you, it is a turn of phrase that has become common slang even though it's original intention is muddy over centuries of use.

Do you ever Fly Off the Handle? That would mean you were using an axe that malfunctioned and the head came off the hilt.

Do you like to Ride Shotgun? This comes from the old Wild West and bandits where someone in the stagecoach was aside the driver armed with a weapon.

Who's on your Blacklist? King Charles sought revenge for the death of his father and kept a life long vigil to seek them out by compiling them in a black journal.

All this and more. Everything you never really wanted to know. But it might play out in your favor in a round of Trivial Pursuit.