freedom lawn n.— «She is against cultivating a green shag rug through the aid of chemicals, advocating instead something the lawn industry calls a Freedom Lawn: “a delicately balanced mixture of whatever can grow in any particular...
hotel reporting n.— «ABC’s Peter Jennings called it “hotel reporting.” We got it from China last June when many Western journalists, their freedom of movement severely restricted in Beijing, were forced to observe the...
dhimmi n.— «Tolerated unbelievers were called dhimmi, or ahl al-dhimma, “the people of the pact.” This was a legal term for the tolerated and protected non-Muslim subjects of the Muslim state.…The dhimma, which...
lick n.— «Mr. Hubbard told him he had “hit a lick”—slang for a robbery.» —“For inmate, ex-con may hold key to freedom after 17 years” by Steve McGonigle Dallas Morning News (Texas) Sept. 18, 2004...
hawasim n.— «I said “do you have a car?!” he said “yes, doctor,” at once I concluded that he was a thief (in slang known as Hawasim, a name derived from Saddam’s description to the coming war at that time as Al...
green box subsidy n.— «Dismissing the idea of so-called “green box subsidies” (WTO parlance for payments which are deemed not to affect world trade), Lord Radice called for a “robust stance,” where freedom of trade...