Shopping for Grasshoppers

Omniglot Blog

07/12/2023 4:45PM

Episode Synopsis "Shopping for Grasshoppers"

Have you ever been grassed up or grassed on? In the UK, to grass someone up or to grass on someone means to betray them to the police or other authorities, and a grass is an informer who betrays a group (of criminals or other ne’er-do-wells) to the police. It’s also used to mean telling […]

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