Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Pregant Pause

There is a phrase "waiting for the other shoe to drop" which refers to the anticipation experienced by the occupants of the room below awaiting the thud as the second shoe drops on the wooden floor of the bedroom in the apartment above.

On Monday police in Belgium had little trouble tracing the perpetrator of the theft of one shoe. He had only one leg.

SMH: One-legged suspect caught with one stolen shoe

And in AWAD this week:
otiose
Def: 1. Superfluous. 2. Futile. 3. Indolent.

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