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The Leonard Lopate Show
The Real Meanings of "Heebie-Jeebies" "Bozo" and "Raining Cats and Dogs"

Wall Street Journal language columnist and executive editor of Vocabulary.com Ben Zimmer discusses the phrases and words we use everyday, and their surprising, hidden origins. He’ll speak about words like "boondoggle" and "southpaw," "get one's goat" and "raining cats and dogs."
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