French hours n.— «[Billy Wilder] also likes the French hours—noon to 7:30 P.M. “In Hollywood, with the five-day week and early hours, one can make fifty silly errors before one begins to work.”» —“Production Views Along...
French hours n.— «He works two days a week, commuting from Palm Springs to Toronto, where the Grosso-Jacobson series is produced. “We work French hours up there,” he said. “You go to work in the afternoon and work...
French hours n.— «Up at 6 to get ready for the day’s shoot (civilized French hours of noon to 8 p.m.), in bed some time after 1 a.m. » —“‘A Man And A Woman’ Redux: Trying To Rekindle The Ashes” by William Hall Los...
French hours n.— «We would get there at 6 a.m. and roll by 6:45. We did “French hours.” You don’t break for lunch, you just keep passing food all day. Colin’s confession at the end, that’s the ninth day of shooting—it’s the...
canto-pop n.— «Canto-pop refers to hits sung in Cantonese, the Chinese dialect that is widely spoken in Hong Kong.» —“Hong Kong Canto-pop singer Deep Ng charged with cocaine possession” in Hong Kong The...
receipt n. In professional wrestling, a payback, score-settling, or revenge taken for true physical injury or insult. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)