road to Damascus experience
n.— «The Washington summit did not prove a road-to-Damascus experience. Within twenty-four hours, Wallace, back on CBS’s Face the Nation, once again atttacked the media for its use of “unmitigated falsehood” to slander the people of Alabama.» —by Dan T. Carter The Politics of Rage Oct. 27, 1995. (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...
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...