Whether you're a bird brain or a wise old owl, you'll love this week's episode as we

fight an uphill battle to understand a language filled with metaphors.

Grammar girl here, I'm Minyon Fogarty and you can think of me as your friendly guide

to the English language.

We talk about writing, history, rules, and other cool stuff.

This week we'll answer a fourth graders question about the phrase, it's all downhill from

here, and then we'll explore some fun animal idioms.

This segment is by Samantha Anzlin and here's a question from Henry.

I'm Minyon, I'm Henry, a fourth grader from Buffalo, New York.

Last night my dad and I were reading the sixth book in a series on unfortunate events by

Lemony Snicket.

In this series, the narrator defines words or phrases.

As the children are about to start climbing up a very high staircase, the dormant jokes,

there's one good thing about this staircase.

It's uphill from here.

The narrator defines it's uphill from here as meaning things will get better in the

future.

However, I find conflicting definitions online and most say it means things will get worse.

It is, it's uphill from here really mean.

Henry asks a great question and one that's trickier than you'd expect.

Here's the story.

If we look at the phrase, it's all uphill from here logically.

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