Have you ever wondered what cold turkey has to do with quitting a habit? We have the answer to that, and we look at other turkey idioms.
THE QUICK AND DIRTY
• The turkey bird gets its name from the country.
• To talk turkey means to speak plainly.
• To go cold turkey means to stop a habit abruptly.
• To call someone a turkey is an...
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As teachers who perpetually vie for fulfilling the optimum outcome for a multitude of profoundly different personalities, the practice years that elapse might already have dissolved the fallacious expectation of the perfectly skilled, fully competent image of teacher that could address what the future might withhold.
By Marina...
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