︎Orange Curtain
n.— «Tom Johnson, ironically an L.B.J. protégé, was brought in from a Texas farm team in 1980 to become Times publisher with the specific mission of penetrating the Orange curtain.» —by Mike Davis City of Quartz : Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Nov. 1, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Ray, a teacher at a bilingual elementary school near Dallas, Texas, shares the Spanish term his family uses for gossiping after a party: saca garra. Spanish garra means “claw” or “talon,” and sacar la garra is used on either...
While reading Great Expectations (Bookshop|Amazon) by Charles Dickens, a listener in Arlington, Texas, is surprised when one of the characters inherits some money, which Dickens describes as a cool four thousand. Were they really using cool that way...