Michigan mink
n.— «I love this jacket. I’ve been wearing it for years and no doubt if I taught for your guild in the last 10 years, you’ve seen me in my “Michigan Mink.”…The Rag Fur Jacket is flattering, it’s “furry,” and it FITS! There are just four easy-to-cut-out pieces: back, front, neckband, and cuffs.» —“Rag Fur Jacket” by Ami Simms Mallery Press (Flint, Mich.) Jan. 17, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
David from Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a former truck driver who remembers that his fellow users of CB radio tended to sound similar, no matter what part of the country they were from. Is there such a thing as an occupational accent? Many of those truck...
Katie in Kalamazoo, Michigan, wonders about the expression throw the book at, meaning to “try every means possible.” Did it originally involve literally throwing books? It’s just a metaphor in which the book refers to “the...