The language gremlins who live with me took over again today, meaning you get to find out the origin of the phrase “in a pickle.” Good old Willie (Shakespeare) noticed that the pickles swimming and knocking against each other inside their container seemed mixed up and confused. (He’d probably sniffed too much vinegar.) Thus, to have one character ask another about the difficult situation he was in, he had him utter the question, “How camest thou in this pickle?”
Now, how are you going to work this bit of trivia into your next conversation? Ah…that puts you in a pickle!
