Common causes, cures for a persistent cough. Cough for a minute or two, and you may think something has gone down the wrong pipe.. Cough for a day or two, and you may think you've picked up a cold or the flu. After a week, bronchitis or allergies may come to mind.
Some ninety years ago Vladimir Lenin coined the phrase âuseful idiotâ and it originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would âsell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with which we will hang them (the West).â.
Facetious trickery, practical jokery (like the use of jokery here). Notes: Today's Good Word comes from a pseudo-name, Tom Fool half-wit, originally a demeaning term for someone suffering from mental illness. The word seldom implies stupidity today and it never refers to mental retardation. Rather it implies impish silliness or even mild trickery. Today a person given to tomfoolery is a tomfool who is so tomfoolish that he or she behaves tomfoolishly. A synonym to today's word, tomfoolishness, is not impossible.