Our wonderful English language is full of the strangest phrases and sayings. Why should somebody suffering from hoarseness regard him or herself as “having a frog in the throat?” Why should anyone achieve something “by hook or by crook?” Why is someone who refrains from drinking alcohol known as “teetotal.” Why do we sometimes follow “red herrings?”. Want to know why. Then remain “on tenterhooks” no longer and find out and hear this talk.
