pepperpotting n.— «This is now an opportunity to revisit that and to support those communities that will not automatically be included. We have commonly referred to it as “pepperpotting” in the past, but it is looking after...
topo n.— «In addition, help was offered by a search-and-rescue group called “topos”—which translates as “moles”—organized by youths who dug through collapsed buildings after Mexico City’s 1985 earthquake...
Mexico City policy n.— «The White House told committee members that Bush “does not support Senate passage” of the bill “in its current form because it includes provisions that would overturn the Administration’s family...
horse blanket n.— «An oversized chart—nicknamed the “horse blanket” because of its size—was created to display the postwar targets for one month, six months and a year out.» —“Afghanistan Aid Sets Bad Example —Bush...
dump truck n.— «Some lawyers contend that a handful of high-volume practitioners like Stern have bled the Ontario Legal Aid Plan dry by setting up veritable plea factories. They’ve even given them a name: “dumptrucks...
bouma shape n.— «Nor have the palaeographers and codicologists ever noted one of the most important lexical consequences of the adoption of minuscule, as opposed to majuscule, as a book script is that it contributed, in conjunction with...