cuffing and stuffing
v.— «The days of cuffing and stuffing criminals in jail are long gone. The role of police officers has been broadened to include the title of educator.» —“DARE Lessons Worth It; Kids Remember” Palm Beach Post (Florida) May 23, 1998. (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...
Chad in Hilliard, Florida, wonders about the expression old as Methuselah, meaning “extremely advanced in years.” The phrase references Methuselah, a figure in Jewish, Islamic, and Christian tradition said to be 969 years old when he...