weisure n.— «“Weisure,” Conley’s term for our increasing tendency to work during leisure time, thanks to advances in portable personal technology.» —“Why We Work More For Less” by Gilbert Cruise Time Jan...
pig in the python n.— «It is a population segment that will grow 27 percent by 1990, and that portion of American womanhood that Gilbert Maurer, president of Hearst Magazines, lovingly characterized as ‘‘the pig in the python...
farming one’s insurance n.— «Other growers and government officials said some of the farmers who started growing sweet potatoes had never grown them before. Others planted in areas known to be wet. Still others didn’t take care of their...
bullet sponge n.— «Fighting in there “is going to be chaotic,” he said. There’ll be lots of ricochets, concussions, shrapnel, and nowhere to crawl in retreat. “The first guy is going to go down.…He’s going to be a...
Vanna White veto n.— «The power is the governor’s partial veto, which includes the unusual ability to take a bill and change its meaning by vetoing the individual letters of words. The result can be the creation of whole new words and a...
blessingway n.— «This afternoon, my sister-in-law, who will be acting as my doula during Truman’s birth, threw me a blessingway. The blessingway (or mother blessing, as it is sometimes known) is a Navajo tradition that has been adapted in...