1. When writer Mary Roach lyes, that's her real name) describes first meeting F. D.A. entomologist
Dana Ludwig, she uses an idiom, a phrase that has a
figurative meaning separate from the literal meaning
of the words, to describe her awkward attempt at
a joke. What idiom does
Roach use? How does she
use this idiom to transition
back into the topic of the
Ricolas': article?
FAMES

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