America's Secret Slang Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Guns, Booze, and PoliticsPolitics is full of odd phrases like "pork barrel projects," "slush funds," and "lame ducks" -- all of which had practical origins and morphed to mean what they do today.
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Episode 2 - Them's Fighting WordsHave you ever wondered why someone who can't get it together is called a "basket case"? Or where the term "Yankee" came from?
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Episode 3 - Y'all Speak CountryThe American South has given us words like "y'all" and "rednecks" as well as dozens of colorful phrases like "fly off the handle" and "barking up the wrong tree."
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Episode 4 - Westword Ho!Expressions from "riffraff" to "betting your bottom dollar", "passing the buck," "acid test" and even "heard it through the grapevine" all come from America's frontier days. But have you ever wondered why these phrases were first used?
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Episode 5 - Coming to AmericaEver wonder why American cowboys say "'git along little doggies" when they're talking about herding cattle?
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Episode 6 - Talking TurkeyAmericans have always loved to eat and expressions relating to food--from New York's "big apple" to "wake up and smell the coffee" --pepper our everyday speech. But where did they all come from?
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