hot bed v. phr.— «While prisoners are out, their cells will be given to other inmates in what is called “hot bedding.” That will allow prison bosses to increase the total number of inmates in the country’s two open prisons...
Arizona n.— «She returns to work, where the brusque, self-obsessed and shallow Manhattanites fret over her only because a) all that grieving can affect productivity; b) ugly facial scar—ugh—find a plastic surgeon, please; and c) people...
internal nutrition n.— «What was going on at the internment camp wasn’t force feeding, he insisted. It was “internal nutrition.”» —“Off-colour stoats one for the Greens” by Alan...
Generation Jones n.— «Generation Jones members were born at the end of the Baby Boom period and are now aged 39 to 50.» —“‘Generation Jones’ the Big Spenders” by Graham Hiscott Scotsman (Scotland) Nov. 24...
Christophobic adj.— «European liberals, while taking enormous care not to be tainted by even a sniff of Islamophobia—a current taboo—are openly “Christophobic”—a useful word coined by French MEP Philippe de Villiers...
dog house n.— «She also started to learn the offshore patois used to describe the different parts of the platform: the dog house, the monkey board, the rat hole, the cat walk.» —“Taking oil painting to a whole new...