blue-sky
v.— «Can’t you just hear some government official blue-skying and saying the system would be so much more affordable if all those pesky old people would just die?» —“Healthcare: The truth about your government” by Paul Harris Vive le Canada Aug. 17, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Suzanne in Tucson, Arizona, says her mother used to say the following to her quickly: Will you? Won’t you? Can’t I coax you? Aw, c’mon! You said you would! You think you might? You promised me! Won’t your mama let ya, huh...
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...