burn off
v.— «VQT pins its slender hopes on seven unseen episodes of “Brooklyn Bridge” that CBS plans to air (“burn off” in TV lingo) sometime after the first of the year.» —“Hopes ride on ‘burn off’ Viewers group works to rescue ‘Brooklyn Bridge’” by Greg Dawson Chicago Tribune Dec. 11, 1992. (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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