bullets, beans, and blankets
n.pl.— «General Vandegrift’s order was brief: “Take only that with is necessary to fight and live.” This meant bullets, beans, and blankets.» —by Merrill B. Twining No Bended Knee June 1, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton’s best-known novel. Today the annual Bulwer-Lytton Contest asks contestants for fanciful first sentences that are similarly...
After hearing our conversation about how dictionaries decide on a preferred pronunciation, and specifically about how to pronounce aioli, Vern from San Diego, California, wrote to say that a friend once made fun of him for pronouncing grimace with a...