gravy time
n.— «Strawberry did miss five games against the Cardinals because of his thumb injury. “Now,” Strawberry said, “it is gravy time.”» —“Mets Set to Deal With Cards 3-game series for East lead begins tonight” by Steve Marcus Newsday (Long Island, New York) Sept. 10, 1985. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Chase from Jacksonville, Florida, grew up in Sacramento, California, where kids played Rochambeau instead of rock, paper, scissors. Why the difference in names? Nobody knows. Folklorists call this a choosing game, and while the hand-game itself...
Nancy Gabriel from Ithaca, New York, recalls her father’s no-nonsense responses to minor injuries when she was a child: After making sure she was really all right, he’d say, It’s far enough from your heart; it won’t kill you. Other times he might...