super-duper Tuesday

super-duper Tuesday
 n.— «As Kirk pitched the rules proposed by the Fairness Commission at four regional DNC caucuses yesterday, he also said critics of a move to create a “super-duper Tuesday” of primaries and caucuses in early March were sounding a “false alarm” and questioned whether all states talking about moving their dates would actually do so.» —“DNC Expected to Pass Rules for 1988 Today Kirk Questions Shift to Earlier Primaries” by Paul Taylor Washington Post Mar. 8, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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