This week Shauna and Dan try not to make a mountain out of a molehill: Bonus: Celestial Scorpions, Time Management Skills, and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/10/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan learn how to cook the books. Bonus: Accounting Wizardry, Spoof versus Satire, and an Epic Parisian Ice Cream Brawl www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/09/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan rub salt in the wounds to see how it feels. Well, not literally, because they both know it hurts. Bonus: Stubborn spouses, iocaine poisoning, and the tingly tarantula of Trinidad www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/09/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan explore the varieties of Nest Eggs. Bonus: Common-sense furniture, Satan sitting on a sin's spawn, and Shauna's hot ninja take www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/09/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan try to discover the Missing Link. Bonus: The Piltdown Man, TV's 'Bones', and Missed Sneezes. Also, please direct all Ultraman complaints to Shauna. www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/09/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan put all their eggs into one basket and ask if that is a good plan or not. Bonus: Kobe Bryant, GI Joe, and Coin-Operated Medieval-Western Songs www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/08/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan explore the phrase Tough Cookie. Bonus: The Yellow Pages, Resilient Kids, and Anthropomorphic Desserts www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/08/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan set out to see if the proof really is in the pudding. Bonus: Codfish Sherlock, Architectural Swansongs, and Puddings of the World www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/08/epis...

This week Shauna admits to being a Night Owl as your hosts delve into the history of the phrase. Bonus: Cyclical fashions, Ginormoustest moons, and Dan knows more about owls than even he realized www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/07/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan explore the phrase under the table. The secret or clandestine one, not the drinking to excess one. Bonus: Book bans, French Culinary School, and friendly, neighborhood food merchants fighting demonic forces in Poland www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/07/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan 'Jump on the Bandwagon' for books, songs, and sportsball. Bonus: Beanie Babies, Pogs, Humbuggeries, and James Cash Penny www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/07/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan explore "Nip it in the Bud." Bonus: Barney Fife, Lancelot (not that one), and the War of 1812 www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/07/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan sing our swansong. Once again, we should have saved this type of phrase for the end of our show, but we have many more episodes still to come. Bonus: Merry madrigals, da Vinci's note books, and parodic poems about parting www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/07/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan chew the fat and debunk some origin stories. Bonus: Soul-disco, teething children, and bored Cowboys www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/06/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan burn all the bridges behind them. And sometimes boats. Or maybe they'll light a river on fire. Bonus: Failure is always an option www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/06/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan try not to upset the apple cart. Bonus: The USA's earliest pen pals, wizardly cats, and Gudrun Lauret's disruptive creators (or possibly creative disruptors) www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/06/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan explore the phrase, flash in the pan. Bonus: Hubble taking pictures of long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, Epic burns of the 1600s, and Texas: the America of America. www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/06/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan explore the phrase, Pay the Piper. Bonus: Multicolored musicians, English History, and Horror Stories www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/05/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan Throw Down the Gauntlet to see what origin story comes out on top. Bonus: Secret Societies, Wizardless Duels, and 80s movies Dan hasn't seen www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/05/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan are feeling run into the ground. Join as they explore the possible origins of this phrase from farming to hunting and nautical to nonsense. Bonus: 17 less ads than Divorce Court in 1961 www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/05/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan have to pay the ferryman. Well, not exactly. Bonus: Charon, Commodores, and Chris de Burgh www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/05/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan speak out against the silence with the phrase, Mums the Word. Bonus: Workers Rights, Charley's Men, and Stokyn Lyppis www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/04/epis...

RETRO: Shauna & Dan ponder whether or not we are all in the same boat, or if we are just in the same body of water with some people on yachts while others are in rowboats. Bonus: Egg frying, white-washed war bond ads, & Dan's great-great-grandmothers newspaper www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/04/retr...

RETRO: This week Shauna and Dan get near the bottom of the elusive phrase, Bob's Your Uncle. Hurray for digitization of historical documents! Check out this breaking news in the world of 130-year-old phrases. www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/04/retr...

This week Shauna and Dan shoot for the moon! Bonus: A man in a button factory, Debunking internet myths, and Steve Irwin saves the day www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/04/epis...

Oh hey! Look who made it into the Top 10 for linguistic podcasts on Feedspot! We came in at #6. It's an honor to even be considered among these great podcasts! podcast.feedspot.com/linguistics_...

This week Shauna and Dan look into diamond in the rough and the two contemporary phases that merged to give us this phrase. Bonus: Dan learns something new, Your hosts accidentally take on the diamond cartel, and Shauna talks about a prison newspaper www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/04/epis...

This week is a wild ride as Shauna and Dan explore the phrase Public Enemy No 1. Bonus: Poetic lyrical sons, Al Capone, and that time President Lincoln was taken hostage by... John Dillinger? Told you it would be a wild ride. www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/03/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan explore the phrase, Bite My Head Off. Which feels better than the earlier version of this phrase. Bonus: Grumpy Valentines, Chocolate Bunnies, and Praying Mantises all the way down www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/03/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan discuss the fork in the road. Not ours, mind you. But someone's fork. Probably. Bonus: Religious parables, Yogi Berra, and Misremembering poems www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/03/epis...

RETRO Episode: What are Ides? Why should we Beware the Ides of March? Should we beware the Ides of other months? Do other months even have Ides? Bonus: Calends, Nones, and Caesars www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/03/retr...

This week Shauna and Dan wait for the other shoe to drop. Dan gets really excited to hear the rather basic origins of this phrase. Bonus: Boarding houses, Bob Cross, and park benches www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/02/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan rack their brains to think of good phrases to explore. Okay, that was a bad joke. But rack my brain is a fun episode. Trust us. Bonus: Beatles, Rebuses, and rack vs wrack www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/02/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan throw in the towel. Well, not really. Though Shauna did note we should have saved this phrase for our last episode. Alas. Bonus: Entrepreneurs, rich hillbillies, and so many boxing movies www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/02/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan explore the phrase, Stick to Your Ribs. Bonus: Visits from series regulars John Ray, Edmund Burke, and Louise Pound, plus our favorite stick to your ribs books. Also, mac-daddi-roni! www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/02/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan try to track down the figurative use of Jump Through Hoops. Difficult, since people have literally been jumping through hoops since hoops were invented. Bonus: Shauna's hoops, bill paying in the 90s, and how your hosts brains work www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/01/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan find out why there were canaries in coal mines, giving us this common phrase. Bonus: Anthropomorphic birds, the black lung, and that time in the late 80s when we solved a climate crisis through international cooperation www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/01/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan take The Lion's Share. Apparently, this concept has been around since before English. (Shauna says Aesop didn't speak English. *Citation Needed*) Bonus: Cheese mongers, pumpkin pies, and Walter with a banana joke www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/01/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan look into the phrase "Cut the Mustard". Does this originate with the yellow mustard stuff, or perhaps from a mishearing of a military term? Bonus: Old political parties, bad internet habits, and a silly commercial from the 1980s www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/01/epis...

It's the start of Season 8 at Bunny Trails! This week Shauna and Dan get a new lease on life. Well, they look into the phrase, anyway. Bonus: Rhyming poems, sad commercials, and a hoarders dream come true! Remember to rate the show and tell a friend! www.bunnytrailspod.com/2025/01/epis...

This week Shauna & Dan are joined by 'Words Christmas Gave Us' author Grace Tierney @wordfoolery.bsky.social to talk Christmas, Boxing Day (St. Stephens Day in Ireland - Do NOT make that mistake), and fun holiday traditions. Happy holidays from Bunny Trails! www.bunnytrailspod.com/2024/12/epis...

It's that time of year! Shauna and Dan deep dive into the holiday phrase, Christmas Spirit. The feeling, not the ghosts. Bonus: Curmudgeonly old men, spirits pitching the Christmas spirit, and the great bagel vs donut debate. www.bunnytrailspod.com/2024/12/epis...

2) Over the years the custom has grown and towns across the country are illuminated, neighbourhoods compete to have the best display and there are often fireworks, music, and dancing too. More about Christmas customs worldwide in "Word Christmas Gave Us" see wordfoolery.wordpress.com/my-books/

Did you know you can gift a Patreon subscription to Bunny Trails? You can & it's easy as pie (ep215)! It makes a great gift for the Word Nerd in your life. Just click the link, select how many months you want to gift them, & Bob's your uncle (ep118) it's done. www.patreon.com/bunnytrailsp...

This week Shauna and Dan explore the phrase, "Third Time's the Charm". Dan finally connects the dots on some similar phrases, too. Bonus: Existential dread, sandwich annihilation, and quilt-making in a weekend. www.bunnytrailspod.com/2024/12/epis...

Hey Word Nerds! It's officially Christmas season (Dan is adamant Christmas waits its turn until after Thanksgiving) and we're happy to tell our listeners that friend of the pod Grace Tierney @wordfoolery.bsky.social has a new book out that would make a perfect gift! amzn.to/3XPdS4h

This week Shauna & Dan call 'all aboard' on the Gravy Train. Bonus: Dubious origins, bad maths, Pink Floyd, & poutine. Happy Thanksgiving! (If you are not celebrating Thanksgiving or your version of it right now, pretend we said this at the appropriate time.) www.bunnytrailspod.com/2024/11/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan explore the phrase Light Years Ahead. Bonus: Science terms, surprise parties, and how to live your best life - through organizational development. Probably. www.bunnytrailspod.com/2024/11/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan look back into the past to discover the origins of the phrase, Hindsight is 20/20. Bonus: Snellen Charts, Astronauts, and the Red Green Nation www.bunnytrailspod.com/2024/11/epis...

This week Shauna and Dan look into the phrase, 'Clear the Air' in both its literal and figurative forms. Bonus: Winds of truth, Dan's brilliance, and the little lies we tell www.bunnytrailspod.com/2024/11/epis...