show-up
n.— «A “show-up” procedure involves the police taking a witness to the location of the suspect to give the witness an opportunity to make an identification.» —by Vincent G. Torpy in District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida David Lassiter v. State of Florida, Case No. 5D02-2291 Nov. 7, 2003. (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...
Chad in Hilliard, Florida, wonders about the expression old as Methuselah, meaning “extremely advanced in years.” The phrase references Methuselah, a figure in Jewish, Islamic, and Christian tradition said to be 969 years old when he...