WORD WIZARDRY

NEW PHRASE OF THE DAY

Qwerty nosedive: to sleep at the keyboard.

GUESS THE DEFINITION

Hallux (coined 1831) A) A big toe. B) wool from a dead sheep. C) A tall, long-legged girl. Answer below.

PHRASE EXPLAINED

Darby and Joan: A happily married couple; the names are from an 18th-century ballad telling of a John Darby and his wife Joan, ‘as chaste as a picture cut in alabaster’.