heart attack kids
attrib.— «More dribbling on CBS promises the birth of many more heart-warming stories. We all remember N.C. State’s “Heart attack kids” defeating Houston’s “Phi Slamma Jamma.”» —“Everybody wins in NCAA TV deal” by Kevin D. Teasley USA Today Nov. 28, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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Inspired by our conversation about the language of leave-taking and the Southern expression Y’all come go home with us, Claire in Durham, North Carolina, calls to reminisce about her experience as a teenager in Mexico and the extended good...