in-law chaser

in-law chaser
 n.β€” Β«Perhaps $714 million wouldn’t sound like a bad price if the politicians had to brave what the Navajos call an β€œin-law chaser” blowing snow into a virtual white-out at gusts up to 50 mph, just so their animals could drinkβ€”especially if they knew that the water they were hauling was going to freeze into ice before morning and they could count on the next day being a repeat performance.Β» β€”β€œLiquid of life” by Kathy Helms in Window Rock Independent (Gallup, New Mexico) Sept. 20, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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