Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of this food sticking to the roof of your mouth.
Peanut Butter
Are You Hungry Tonight? is a cookbook dedicated to this late American music icon's favorite recipes.
Elvis Presley
In Norse mythology, cats symbolized rain and dogs represented howling wind. A combination of the two gives us this phrase for really heavy rain.
It's Raining Cats and Dogs
In the mid 1800's, as many as 175,000 people had rushed to California in search of this.
Gold
A STOPwatch
Urophobia is the discomfort-inducing fear of using these in public places.
Toilets
A landmark in medicine since 1858, this human anatomy textbook gave its name to a medical drama television series now in its 21st season.
Grey's Anatomy
Stemming from the custom of looking at a horse's teeth to determine its age and potential worth, this phrase means to not critically scrutinize a gift.
Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
An iconic symbol of the Old West, this early mail delivery system only operated for 18 months.
The Pony Express
While most people will stop what they're doing to happily watch these beautiful, fluttering insects, those suffering from Lepidopterophobia would likely run away.
Butterflies
Conspiracy theories say "the girl in the polka-dot dress" hypnotized the shooter behind the late-60's assassination of this famous political figure who was expected to be the next president of the U.S.
Robert F. Kennedy
In an old English card game, a jackknife, or ‘buck’, was handed from player to player to indicate whose turn it was, giving us this phrase, which means to shift responsibility to someone else.
Pass the Buck
Tombstone, Arizona, was the site of this famous gunfight that pitted U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp and his friend Doc Holliday against the Clanton-McLaury gang.
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
A phobia that didn't exist 20 years ago, Nomophobia is the fear of being without this.
Your Cell Phone
Rock Hudson & Susan Saint James played a crime-solving couple on this series from 1971 to '77.
McMillan & Wife
The ancient Greek process of voting by placing colored beans into a vase gave rise to this phrase, meaning to reveal a secret.
Spill the Beans
The now-iconic cowboy hat was first introduced by this company in 1865, and they're still making them today.
Stetson
It is the height of irony that the 36-letter word Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, the second longest word in the English language, means the fear of these.
Long Words
Stretching 1,080 miles from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean, the Mackenzie River is the longest river in this country, and the second longest in North America after the mighty Mississippi.
Canada
In ancient India it was tradition to throw balls of butter at statues of gods to seek favor, which gives us this phrase, meaning to soften one's feelings towards you through flattery.
Buttering Up
In 1856, the U.S. Army imported 66 of these temperamental animals from the Middle East to the Texas heat as a possible replacement for horses.
Camels