code pink
n.— «Seldon has developed a so-called “code pink” system at Columbia. Like the “code blue” teams which respond to cardiac arrests in virtually all hospitals, the code pink team responds to emergencies in the delivery rooms.» —“Device Gives Premature Infants a Better Chance” by B.D. Colen Washington Post Mar. 17, 1978. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Katie in Everett, Washington, is curious about the expression If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no need for tinkers. What is a tinker? She heard this phrase on the television series The Gilded Age, in response to a character who...