Going over listeners' responses to past broadcasts. This week: Depressing news when unemployment is down, correcting the carrot-and-stick idiom, and what Google's auto-complete feature reveals ...

In this episode of The Teacher there are three idioms connected with food and vegetables: It's a hot potato; A carrot and a stick; Like two peas in a pod.

We’ve all heard the idiom about the carrot being better than the stick as a tool for motivation but did you ever wonder where it came from? Turns out it originated with an old story about a mule ...