Bunny Trails: A Word History Podcast

This week Shauna and Dan discuss the origins of Axe to Grind, which was made popular by old Ben while taking some interesting twists and turns to get to the phrase we know and love today! #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community

This week Shauna and Dan talk about theater phrases. We're joined by special guest Moxie LaBouche from the awesome podcast, Your Brain On Facts! Links Join the Bunny Trails Community Your Brain On Facts Podcast

Join Shauna and Dan as she discusses the fun stories behind feeling fit as a fiddle and he gets lost in what actually IS a fiddle? #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community

Join Shauna and Dan as they spill the beans on how this idiom, and its operant word, evolved from something drastically different into the phrases we know today. It's a whimsical and fascinating adventure! #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community

Waste not, want not we always say... wait. No, we've never said that. Until today where we say it a bunch. Learn with us! #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community

Is ignorance really bliss? Join Shauna and Dan as they delve into the meaning of the idiom and discover why they agree with the full phrase more than this shortened version we all know today. #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community

This week Shauna and Dan check everywhere, not to mention right over there, in their quest to leave No Stone Unturned! The idiom itself hasn't changed much since its first usage in ye olden days, but the places it pops up make for a fun journey. Along the way you'll get to learn about Dan's order for Chronology and we poke fun at George Orwell. Join us this week on Bunny Trails! Links Join the Bun...

Shauna and Dan debate whether seeing the world through rose colored glasses is a good thing or a bad thing. History sure has an answer, but it's an interesting journey on this weeks Bunny Trails! Links Join the Bunny Trails community!

Shauna and Dan discuss the origins of Knight In Shining Armor. First, we talk armor, then knights, then all sorts of fun stuff! #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community!

This week Shauna and Dan talk about the bottom line. But what came first... the profit and loss statements? Maybe the most important thing? What about the musical term? Or maybe the fishing net component? Learn about it all on this episode on #BunnyTrails! Links Join the Bunny Trails Community!

Join Shauna and Dan as they explore the history of Frog in Ones Throat. It has some similarities to other idioms we've done, but definitely goes down the deep end. Get ready to be grossed out and elated all at the same time! #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community!

This week Shauna and Dan jump into the awesome phrase, cat got your tongue. Is it Pirates? Witches? Breath stealing cats? Find out here! #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community!

What killed the cat? Curiousity or Care? Well... both! Join Shauna and Dan as they wind down the hole of curiosity and cats, which should make the internet gods happy. Plus, we totally talk about super awesome people like Galileo, Curie, and a 91 year old author who Dan just really enjoyed. #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community!

Shauna and Dan discuss the various possible origins of My Two Cents while also talking stories by Santa Claus. Dan stans the Library of Congress while Shauna tells jokes by the Beatles. Its nerdy fun on this episode of Bunny Trails! #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community on Patreon!

Shauna and Dan talk about the mystical, all-seeing eye(s) in the back of someone's head. Shauna delves deep into the Third Eye, but to Dan's chagrin never once mentioned Third Eye Blind. Also, Dan tries to trademark Alvin and the Chipmunks, before being informed it doesn't work that way. #BunnyTrails Links Join the Bunny Trails Community at Patreon!

This week Shauna and Dan give up and Call it A Day. Well, almost. They discover the origins of the word call , leading to the idiom that means things from big to small. They talk Davy Crockett, Mark Twain, and Howard Taft. Also how idioms can permeate even the strongest echo chambers like a semi-permeable membrane on a cell wall. Links Support Bunny Trails!

This week Shauna and Dan talk fact, myths, and legends surrounding Raining Cats and Dogs ! Dan takes aim at flat-earthers while Shauna asserts that cats bring rain and dogs bring wind. Or maybe wolves. You'll learn how to pronounce Arkansas and El Dorado, plus discover why Kansans talk about the weather unironically.

This week Shauna and Dan discuss the phrase Play It By Ear . From it's roots as a metonymy to the improvisational skills of the Hardy Boys, this phrase goes lots of places. #BunnyTrails Links Support Bunny Trails!

This week Shauna and Dan discuss the macabre. No, not the parrot-like bird. Also not the monkey. Death! We jump head-long into Pushing Up Daisies. Artwork by @MerynneArt Links Support Bunny Trails!

This week Shauna and Dan look at the history of Rain Check , from a St Louis baseball term to a American phenomenon. Along the way they get too close to the conspiracy in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory , talk about their own social awkwardness and anxiety, plus trace how the word check went from a persian word meaning King to the common word we use today! Links Support Bunny Trails!

This week Shauna and Dan talk about Bunny Trails. Dan gets lost as Shauna goes all smarty pants. Shauna talks Alice In Wonderland and the Matrix, while Dan goes Monty Python and classic rock. Join the fun as they explore the wonderful phrase: Bunny Trails! Links Support Bunny Trails!

Idiom: A word or phrase with a meaning not recognizable from the individual words themselves. Example: Bunny Trails, a modern spin on the idiom "Going down a rabbit trail" meaning losing the point of your story. Each week, Dan and Shauna take a look at a popular idiom, or other turn of phrase, and delve into its origins, its meaning, how it became what it is today. If you like Bunny Trails and wan...