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Episode 13: Mysterious Idioms
I find Idioms interesting; their origins are a mystery. First of all, some of them sound idiotic, nonsensical, for example ‘saved by the skin of your teeth?’ What in the world does that mean? But the word “idiom” is not related to idiocy, rather ‘idiom’ comes from the Greek word “idioma,” meaning peculiar phrasing. That perfectly describes an idiom. An idiom is a widely used saying or expression containing a figurative meaning that differs from the phrase’s literal meaning. Idioms often reflect a commonly held cultural experience, even if that experience is antiquated. For example, you might say that someone should “bite the bullet” when they need to quit
procrastinating and do something they don’t want to do. Originally the phrase referred to wounded soldiers literally biting down on a bullet to avoid screaming during a wartime operation. Thus, from the past a phrase we still use today though it literally does not apply.
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Meet your host for Episode 13:
Rebecca J Wetzler, originally a California girl, has lived in Alaska since she was eight years old. From early in life, she has been an avid reader, and hoped to write her own books someday. From her earliest memories she has been a believer. Shortly after moving to Alaska, she asked Jesus into her heart during Sunday School. As her life progressed, Rebecca realized her faith gives her steady spiritual regrounding to weather the drama of real life. She challenges the untruths forecast by the world’s darkness by believing the Light of God’s Word, and she wants to share the spiritual truths with others. Bread Box for the Broken is her first book.
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After the body of Edward Morrison was found in the bottom of the U.S. lighthouse boat on the shore of Lake Superior, stories began to flourish about what had happened and who was responsible — even before the facts were established. To this day, people still have strong opinions about an event that occurred more than one hundred years ago.
Perhaps the most famous Alaska Ghost ship story is that of the Eliza Anderson. Here is the saga of a ship in distress, forced to choose between being battered to splinters by the savage sea or running around on the rocky shoals of Kodiak Island. Instead, a tall, gaunt, wind-swept, rain-soaked giant of a stranger seized control of the ship’s wheel and steered her safety. Then, his job completed, he vanished as mysteriously as he had arrived. For fifty years, the legendary “Stranger Who Came Aboard” was grist for the supernatural mill of Alaska Gold Rush stories.
Most parents can imagine no nightmare worse than the disappearance of a child, but how can a parent possibly cope when both of their children vanish, swallowed by the Alaska wilderness?
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