"You're in good hands with carrots."

An ode to N400s.

Fish and chips. Time and money. Bite the bullet. Take one for the team. They’re multi-word expressions (MWEs), and some are so well known as to become idioms. Idioms and MWEs are reusable shortcuts that help us communicate and process information faster. They are little templates our brains whip out; our brains drop the first few words into the template…