elevator pitch
n.— «Be very careful! What you say next will make all the difference in the relationship and delivering a stellar elevator pitch.» —by Anthony Parinello Getting to VITO Jan. 25, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Brenna, a nurse in Rapid City, South Dakota, says she was on a hospital elevator full of people and when the doors opened and someone in the back was trying to get off, she piped up with One side or a leg off!, but no one understood that phrase. It...
Joe, a retired astronomer in Tucson, wonders where odds in What are the odds? comes from. It traces back to odd as the opposite of even: if one stack of coins differs from otherwise equal stacks, it is the odd one. From that sense of difference or...