panel beating
n.— «Australian police told the Herald they had been trying to influence local police not to beat suspects, a practice known as “panel beating.”» —“Thin blue line of violence” by Craig Skehan in Papua New Guinea Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) Sept. 1, 2005. (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...
Asthenosphere, a geologist’s term for the molten layer beneath the earth’s crust, sparks a journey that stretches all the way from ancient Greece to the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Plus: What the heck is a dogberg? It’s when...