mail it in
v. phr.— «We have Bayside, where alert and caring clerks deliver honest, knowledgeable, efficient, thorough service with good humor, instead of “just mailing it in,” as they say in sports.» —“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of bulk mail” by Barry Blake Times-Standard (Eureka, California) Jan. 12, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Cat hair may be something you brush off, but cat hair is also a slang term that means “money.” In the same way, cat beer isn’t alcoholic — some people use cat beer as a joking term for “milk.” And imagine walking on a...