green hornet
n.— «Like more than two dozen others crammed into the courtroom in a City of Ottawa building on Centrepointe that spring morning, Mr. Howard had come to fight a parking ticket. Every Wednesday, the court convenes to hear protests of innocence and pleas for mercy from those stung by the green hornets.» —“‘I was only gone for two minutes…’” by Glen McGregor Ottawa Citizen (Canada) June 12, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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