Drawing Listeners Like Flies (Hopefully): Words from our Winged Insects
2017-09-13
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The word “fly” is a very old word, and of course we have many expressions and nouns that contain the word "fly" itself, but do you know that there are dozens of familiar words whose origins reside in flies and other winged insects?
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