haircut
v. phr.— «When individuals or businesses go bankrupt, banks are forced to take what bankers euphemistically call “a haircut.”» —“Writing off the debt” by Salil Tripathi Guardian (U.K.) July 8, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
In The Timbuktu Review, travel writer Wayne Curtis offers excellent advice about how to resist cliches when writing about visiting a new place. This is part of a complete episode.
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