starlight tour
n.— «By the time a cop offers Stryker a “starlight tour”—the euphemism for a beating and a drive so far from town that you could freeze to death before you stumble back—the anxiety levels are overwhelming.» —“Canuck gang film ‘terrifying’” by Liz Braun Edmonton Sun (Alberta, Can.) Jan. 13, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Chris from Kittery, Maine, wonders about the colloquial expression no sirree, Bob! or yes sirree, Bob!, which is an emphatic way of saying “definitely not!” or “no way!” The sirree (sometimes spelled with one r, as siree) in...
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...