breakfast-table test
n.— «Rosenberg applies what he calls “the breakfast-table test” to any gruesome picture, titillating image or vulgar word. He doesn’t want to make people sick over their cornflakes.» —“Ombudsman: Policing the Issue Ads” by Geneva Overholser Washington Post July 21, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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...