hot shoe
n.— «The Hendrick Motorsports camp hopes rookie Brian Vickers can be the next hotshoe at the slightly-banked bullring.» —“Virginia is For Lovers—Fans Can’t Help But Adore Martinsville” by Bill Whitehead The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) , 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Barbara Kingsolver’s book Demon Copperhead is a retelling of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield set in today’s Appalachia. Martha shares memories of a long-ago visit to Kingsolver’s family farm in Virginia, where they...
When Marilyn from Boston, Massachusetts, used the expression Them’s the berries! with neighbors in her hometown of nearby Arlington, Massachusetts, she was surprised they were unfamiliar with it. The phrase means something like “That’s...