The one-word-a-day approach seems slow, but it's not that bad. It goes deeper into the many uses of common words and idioms. I always discover new ones, even for seemingly simple words like "right."

I have excruciating pain right here.

That’s your shoe.

Very funny. I mean my foot. Where do we keep the aspirin?

In the kitchen, behind the ibuprofen. The knives are right below. Call me if you need me to help — I'm really good at "chopping."

Doesn't anyone tell you it's not right to make fun of someone who's sick?

Sick? Listen, I know you're upset, and rightly so, but calling a corn on your toe "sickness"? So, what do you call a muscle strain, a terminal case?

No, but close. My toe is killing me

Then you have every right to complain, but do it elsewhere.

All right, but only if you do the right thing and hand me an ice pack.

This is right up your alley...