mop and glow
v. phr.— «Your union dues here goes to help pay the rent on the office, office supplies, this web site, the training material Capt. Randy Blanchard is using to train our future haz mat team (AKA the Mop and Glow Team ) and other such items.» —“Why do we get invovled in Politics?” by Wayne Hines Fulton County Fire IAFF Local 3920 (Atlanta, Ga.) Mar. 18, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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