hard eight
n.— «The toy industry calls the eight weeks leading up to Christmas the “hard eight.” That’s when prices jump for slots on kids shows and when toy ads replace cereal ads.» —“Six strategies marketers use to get kids to want stuff bad” by Bruce Horovitz USA Today Nov. 21, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The word nurdle, sometimes spelled nerdle, can be used to denote various “small bits of things,” such as styrofoam packing material or detritus in one’s pockets. It may be related to the word nodule. Like thingamabob and whatsit...
If someone urges you to spill the tea, they probably don’t want you tipping over a hot beverage. Originally, the tea here was the letter T, as in “truth.” To spill the T means to “pass along truthful information.” Plus...