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beaver fever

beaver fever  n.— «Pender said the water treatment plant will resolve long-standing complaints that residents have had with the quality of drinking water. In the early 1990s, the city’s supply was contaminated with giardia, a parasitic...

leaverite

leaverite  n.— «Leaverite, as in “leave-her-right.” Leave her right there. It’s just another damn rock, and if you tourists keep toting them home, the Yukon will be flat as Dallas. Now, if you’re finished prospecting, I’ll show...

heart-attack team

heart-attack team  attrib.— «We are a heart-attack team. I wouldn’t bet my drawers on winning tonight, but we’re going to take it because we’re a fighting city» —“Anxiety hits a fever pitch” by Jack Warner Atlanta...

red light fever

red light fever  n.— «Which is tosh of course, because the exceedingly plain Ms Millard (she could be Anne Robinson’s sister) is a blatant attention-seeker who’s never been the same since Liz Hurley told her she had magnificent breasts...

red light fever

red light fever  n.— «Red light fever is racing through the General Assembly. Officials in seven cities, including Wilmington, want to follow the lead of Charlotte and nab drivers who run red lights by photographing them in the act...