judas window
n.— «I went over to the school and peeked at him through the classroom judas window. He wasn’t over-active.» —“Chicken Soup In The Medical Bag” by Stanton Delaplane San Francisco Chronicle Jan. 24, 1985. (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...
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