chicken-in-the-basket
n.— «It is oversimplistic to dismiss her direct expressions and her extraordinary voice as chicken-in-the-basket sentimentality.» —“Warwick road to cabaret” by Joseph Gallivan Independent (London, England) Feb. 15, 1990. (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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