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ambulance chasing

ambulance chasing  n.— «In 1977, Steven Weinberg, then two years shy of the Nobel Prize in Physics, decided to do a little of what some theorists call “ambulance chasing.” He heard a rumor, while spending a year at Stanford, that...

ostrich instruction

ostrich instruction  n.— «U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve on Thursday granted the government’s request for a controversial jury instruction known as “deliberate avoidance.” The standard, also called the “ostrich...

mercury mom

mercury mom  n.— «But the network, in its haste to dismiss the thimerosal theory as the dangerous lunacy of mercury moms and trial lawyers, may one day live to regret its unyielding certainty, in a Dewey-Defeats-Truman sort of way...

mother wound

mother wound  n.— «In many marriages, the wife is mother not only to any children, but also to the husband, who sometimes actually calls her “mummy”, which always sounds creepy. Theories abound, particularly in California, as to why this...

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