green tape
n.— «“Green tape” is a new buzz word in a business community cautious that new environmental regulations might come hand in hand with excessive bureaucratic processes. A study released this week warned that green tape would be one of the major challenges facing Australian small and medium enterprises over the coming decade.» —“Seeing the light” by Anneli Knight MySmallBusiness (Sydney, Australia) Sept. 21, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
How do you transform ancient Chinese script for use in the modern age? English uses a keyboard with just 26 letters, but the first Chinese typewriter looked like a small table under a huge disk with more than 4,000 characters. A new book chronicles...
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...