golden ticket n.— «Their story highlights the troubles facing both foreign workers and island employers utilizing seasonal H-2B visas, which workers often refer to as “golden tickets” but require strict commitments long before it is...
leisure farm n.— «Now the fashion is having a leisure farm for the weekend. They’re planning to grow tomatoes and other salad vegetables for their own tables. Parang it’s becoming fashionable again to work with your hands.» —“The...
two eyes and a wiggle n.— «In an act of both optimism and desire, millions of shad fry—so young and tiny they are often referred to as “two eyes and a wiggle”—have been released upstream on many area waterways where dams are...
self-licking ice cream cone n.— «SDI has become “a self-licking ice cream cone. It serves no purpose except to consume itself.”» —“Critics Call Star Wars A Contractors’ Feast” by Tim Weiner Philadelphia...
familylect n.— «Not those complex computer codes or ubiquitous bar codes or the lol codes used in so many IMs. Rather, the secret acronyms, subtextual phrases and redefined nouns that people invent at home.…Academics have developed...
opium bed n.— «The Backyard is punctuated with palm trees and so-called opium beds, which resemble open-sided concrete pillboxes and feature upholstered mattresses and flat-screen TVs. During the height of swim season, the poolside opium...