cow-dust hour
n.— «It was the Indian “cow-dust hour”—an hour fit for reverie, all the more for Colonel X, because he was due to return to England within the month.» —“A Second Chance” Times (London, England) Sept. 16, 1938. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Ben Yagoda’s new book Gobsmacked: The British Invasion of American English, based on his blog Not One-Off Britishisms, which features words and phrases that are originally British but are being used more and more in the States, including...
Why do some people pronounce the word sixth as “sikth”? This is part of a complete episode.
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