What did you call the <b>cliques</b> in your high school? Were you a member of the nerds, the jocks, or maybe the <b>grits</b> or the <b>heshers</b>? Also, what's the meaning of the phrase "<b>rolling in the deep</b>"? Why do we say something's turned up <b>like a bad penny</b>? And is it proper to refer to our recent economic problems as <b>the Great Recession</b>? Plus, <b>favorite letters</b> of the alphabet, taking <b>umbrage</b>, <b>fudgies vs. flatlanders</b>, <b>and washrag vs. washcloth</b>. <a href="http://www.waywordradio.org/like-a-bad-penny">See the full show notes at <i>A Way with Words</i></a>.