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The newest expression I have heard came on a trip to California to spend time with my grandchildren and great-grandchildren: My granddaughter, in explaining what anguish she was in, said she had a “full plate.”

Since it wasn’t mealtime, I didn’t get it. She then enumerated the various trials and tribulations that life has a way of dumping on people.

In my mind, when we had a “full plate,” it would have meant, “Thank heavens, the Depression is over!”