Gone to Seed (Rebroadcast) - 6 May 2019

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🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week on A Way with Words: Restaurant jargon, military slang, and modern Greek turns of phrase. • Some restaurants now advertise that they sell “clean” sandwiches. But that doesn’t mean they’re condiment-free or the lettuce got an extra rinse. In the food industry, the word “clean” is taking on a whole new meaning. • A Marine veteran wonders about a phrase he heard often while serving in Vietnam: give me a huss, meaning “give me a hand.” • Surprising idioms used in Greece. For example, what does a Greek person mean if he tells you “I ate a door”? Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Deliverer because anything goes this Christmas. Yes, even sprouts on a pizza or gravy on sushi.
0:10.0	The rules are there are no rules. Have a Cantonese on Christmas Eve or a faulty
0:15.6	on boxing day and when you're so over the leftovers bring on the ramen.
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0:29.2	You're listening to a way with words to show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.3	And I'm Martha Barnett. In English, if we want to tell somebody to be alert, pay close attention,
0:40.0	we might say keep your eyes peeled. But they have a great expression in Greece that
0:44.1	they use that translates as your eyes 14 your eyes 14 yeah to match
0:50.1	saus decatecetera what is that I? Which I love.
0:53.0	It's just like, I guess more than two eyes.
0:55.0	So like spider eyes?
0:57.0	Something like that.
0:58.0	Yeah, you know, the Greek mythical character Argus had a hundred eyes all over his body but Tamachesas Decatocetesera and you can hear the 14 in Decatessera.
1:07.0	Yeah, Decatessera I was going to point that out.
1:09.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cool.
1:12.0	Well I dug into some modern Greek slang and I really am enjoying it.
1:16.2	For example, can you guess what the expression that literally translates as, I ate a door means?
1:22.3	I ate a door. I ate a door.
1:23.3	This is what you'd say after a big meal or in English we say
1:27.7	you have a burrito baby.
1:29.3	Or something like that, right?
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