Barmuda Triangle
n.— «In a dark corner of Leo’s Food and Spirits at Dauphine and France streets—one-third of what is known as “The Barmuda Triangle in the 9th Ward”—sat the Captain For Life of Box of Wine.» —“Corkscrew krewe ; The Box of Wine march must be seen to be believed” by Angus Lind Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Lousiana) Mar. 2, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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Jill from Greenville, South Carolina, wants to know why pickle automatically means “pickled cucumber,” as opposed to other pickled vegetables, such as onions and carrots. The answer has to do with prototypicality, the cultural agreement that one...