Wall Street Journal language columnist and executive editor of Vocabulary.com Ben Zimmer discusses the phrases and words we exhaust everyday,and their surprising, hidden origins. He’ll speak approximately words like "boondoggle" and "southpaw, and " "get one's goat" and "raining cats and dogs." What words or phrases do you need to know the origins of? Leave us a comment below or question us on Twitter or Facebook,and we might get Ben Zimmer's answer!
Source: wnyc.org