human rain delay
n.— «I get up there, I throw my pitches and I get rolling. I like to keep the pace of the game going. I’m not one of those human rain delays, as they call them. The only thing I had to do was slow it down.» —“Notes: Pain not stopping Polanco” by Jason Beck Major League Baseball Oct. 5, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A physician in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, shares some of the vocabulary of his patients from Appalachia. There, a misery is anything painful, such as a misery in my jaw if they have a painful tooth or a misery in my back if they have lumbar pain...
The emotional appeal of handwriting and the emotional reveal of animal phrases. Should children be taught cursive writing in school, or is their time better spent studying other things? A handwritten note and a typed one may use the very same words...