flash over
v. phr.— «Other vehicles show the effects of time—that shops had hidden with a fresh coat of paint, Suggs said. The industry calls the practice “flashing over,” making the car worth far less.» —“Cars get new bodies, people get new spirit” by Al Greenwood Fayetteville Observer (North Carolina) Jan. 10, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Kim from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, remembers her Alabama-born mother asking, Where are you proging today? The word progue, also spelled prog, is a bit of dialect meaning “to poke around” or “to ramble.” In the UK, this word, from a Germanic root...
Brian from Lafayette, Indiana, wonders why chicken is abbreviated CHX in the restaurant industry. Using X as a substitute or shortener has a long history. Medieval scribes sometimes drew a line through the final stroke of an abbreviated word. This...