books.google.com.au - Did you know that 'flavour of the month' originated in a marketing campaign in American ice-cream parlours in the 1940s, when a particular flavour would be specially promoted for a month at a time? And did you know that 'off the cuff' refers to the rather messy practice of writing impromptu notes on...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_Idioms.html?id=25KVCKFGrKwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Oxford Dictionary of Idioms