Heart Attack Kids
attrib.— «“No Worries’ would be a different team from the “Heart Attack Kids” team of two years ago that was known for its comebacks.» —“Black Determined Not to Be 2nd-Best Again” by Allen Plyler Chicago Sun-Times Aug. 23, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A librarian opens a book and finds a mysterious invitation scribbled on the back of a business card. Another discovers a child’s letter to the Tooth Fairy, tucked into a book decades ago. What stories are left untold by these forgotten...
Aubrey in Waco, Texas, says her mother used to warn the kids against contracting honkus of the bonkus, a fanciful name for a contagious disease. This colloquial term probably comes from the words bonk and konk, meaning “to hit” or...