Rummy’s Dummies
n.— «The sharpest blow to Rummy’s Dummies is a scene, shot long before the recent Rumsfeld press-conference debacle, wherein a gunner in mock-TV-news tones explains how safe he feels.» —“A Rap on War” by Tim Appelo Seattle Weekly (Wash.) Mar. 9, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
In the thriller Down Cemetery Road starring Emma Thompson, a character uses the Briticism safe as houses, meaning “quite safe,” an expression thought to derive either from the sturdiness of a house or the sense of real estate as a secure investment...
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