refugee bag
n.— «In Rakena’s video, everyone is wearing bags, sometimes referred to as refugee bags. “Those large, striped, plastic bags,” Rakena says. “They’re used all over the Pacific because they’re cheap and easy to move.”» —“Welcome to the contact zone” by Rosalie Higson The Australian (Sydney, Australia) June 2, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
She sells seashells by the seashore. Who is the she in this tongue twister? Some claim it’s the young Mary Anning, who went on to become a famous 19th-century British paleontologist. Dubious perhaps, but the story of her rise from seaside...
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