At a loss for words: more idioms to consider

Mickey Starling  reporter3@greenepublishing.com  If you have been to the grocery store lately and checked out egg prices or any number of other food items, you may have thought “this is costing me an arm and a leg!” While this is a slight exaggeration, the idiom was an accurate portrayal of the cost of freedom for soldiers in World War II. Many soldiers returned from the war with missing limbs. The brutal cost of the conflict was evident in the crippling effects of combat. It beca