“That really grinds my goat.”
“I wouldn’t open that can of worms even with ten feet.”
“Tiptoeing around like a well-oiled balloon.”
“The students are all acting like stone toads.”
* This practice reflects the first half of a two-part department philosophy. As the web site puts it: “We have a saying in the Biology Department: ‘You can learn about biology by listening to someone else; you become a biologist by doing it yourself.'”