by Kevin Burton The happy whirring has begun. I meant the whirring from our brand new purchased-on-sale, matches-the-oven, shiny, silver refrigerator. My wife may be whirring happily too, not sure. I told the story of our kitchen appliance upgrade last week (“So Long Old Fridge, Good Riddance,” June 1). I said …
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Tooling Around, Feeling Virtuous
by Kevin Burton Looks as if I’ve had the definition of “tooling around” wrong all these years. Tool around is a verb, says vocabulary.com, meaning to “ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it.” On yourdictionary.com the definition is “to drive or jaunt about, going from place …
Idioms Are Words To Live By, Carefully
by Kevin Burton I try to be thoughtful and practical when buying things for my wife. I have to admit though, one of my Christmas presents for her sucks. It’s a handheld vacuum to clean the car interior and small places in the house. Sucks, get it? Vacuum sucks? Well OK, …
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