open up daylight
v. phr.— «The speedy Baby Bubble quickly outfoot that gelding and opened up daylight over Grog.» —“Gratton Colt Is Surprise As He Takes Derby Trial” in Hialeah Park, Fla. Syracuse Herald (N.Y.) Jan. 26, 1936. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Quiz Guy John Chaneski’s puzzle this week involves pig Latin, a.k.a. Ig-pay Atin-lay. One of two answers to each clue is a regular English word, and the other is its pig Latin version. For example, what regular English word and its pig Latin...
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...