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Our American Stories

"Bring Home the Bacon" and the Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions (Pt. 5)

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Andrew Thompson shares another slice of his guide to understanding the baffling mini-mysteries of the English language. The book is Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red: The Wonderful Origins of Everyday Expressions and Fun Phrases. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:34.7

You're a podcast.

0:45.4

No. or wherever you get your podcast. This is our American stories,

0:48.0

and we tell stories about everything here on this show.

0:51.0

And up next, author Andrew Thompson,

0:57.9

here to share the stories behind curious phrases and everyday sayings. Take it away, Andrew. Blowing hot and cold means to change one's mind or be

1:05.1

inconsistent. And it derives from classical mythology and one of the fables of ASOP, the ancient Greek writer from

1:11.4

570 BC. In it he tells the story of a man who meets a mythical beast who is part man

1:18.1

and part goat on winter's day. When he meets the beast, the man blows on his hands to warm

1:23.5

them up because it's cold and the beast invites the man into his house to have some porridge. But then the man blows on the porridge to cool it down. The beast couldn't believe it

1:32.7

and said, Out you go, I will have naught to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same

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