hidden city
n.— «If I change planes in Amsterdam and go on to Istanbul, it costs $550. If I get on the same flight at Bradley, skip the Istanbul flight and stay in Amsterdam, it’s $45 more. The extra three and a half hours of flying for nearly 1,400 miles actually reduces the price.…Most airlines specifically forbid that kind of maneuver which is called hidden-city ticketing.» —“No Hidden Cities Allowed” by Jeanne Leblanc Hartford Courant: Coach Class Jan. 13, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Quiz Guy John Chaneski maintains that lots of nation’s names are hiding in plain sight during our everyday conversations, and he has a puzzle to prove it. For example, if he says, “Here on the farm, we don’t drink coffee. We just take the dry grass...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski presents a “Take-Off” brain teaser, in which the clue suggests a word that, when the first letter is taken off, reveals a second word. In this case, all the first words begin with the letter N. For example, what two words are...