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welcome to the khaki ride home for Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

Why we rely on idioms for communication and how some of the more nonsensical ones entered

our lexicon.

Plus, a company working on a sort of 10,000 G slingshot to launch satellites into space with zero emissions just pulled off their first successful test launch.

And some reflections on reconnecting with the Earth in this era of the climate emergency without appropriating indigenous cultures.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Just a heads up here that this segment is going to include a handful of instances of a particular swear word.

So if you're listening with your kids or just don't like that kind of language, go ahead and skip to the

next segment.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Curiosity killed the cat.

I got chewed out by my boss.

They were just pulling your leg.

Why do so many of these almost nonsensical turns of phrase seem to hit on exactly what we mean, sometimes better than

actually describing it. Last year, peripatetic linguist Chi Liu dove into this mystery as part

of her lingua-obscura column on J-Store Daily, and in particular, she dove into the origins

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