“Seize the Day”? “Let them eat cake”? Do we know where those phrases came from and what they mean?
Author Eli Burnstein joins host Lisa Mullins to talk about his book, “Phrased & Confused: The Curious Meanings of Timeless Quotations.”
Book excerpt: ‘Phrased & Confused’
By Eli Burnstein
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