Let’s not beat around the bush here: Americans have a way with words. The idioms and sayings we’ve collectively coined through the years run the gamut from folksy (“couldn’t hit the side of a barn”), to adorable (“cool as a cucumber”) to mean and adorable (“not the sharpest knife in the drawer”). There’s also a lot of weirdly body-specific Americanisms. We’ve really got a thing for legs: “That id...More