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May 7, 2025 β€’ 50 mins
Rob and Jess "pull out all the stops" in this episode explaining idiom origins.Β 
✈️ Why do we say "balls to the wall" and "push the envelope"? 
🐘 What's so useless about a "white elephant"? 
πŸ‘• Where were the original "whole nine yards"?
These questions answered and many more in this common sayings special of Words Unravelled.

Here's our other idioms episode: https://pod.fo/e/2a54ba
And the video version of this one: https://youtu.be/ca3lz3dXgW8

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