Stephen Girard job
n.— «That drawhead on which we had been working was tried and found to be short. We have to do all the work over again. A Stephen Girard job like that makes me lose heart.» —by Rexford B. Hersey Workers’ Emotions in Shop and Home , 1932. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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