dogs of the Dow n.pl.— «WI was thinking of the Dogs of the Dow, those high-yielding blue chips that gained notoriety nearly a decade ago.…The Dogs of the Dow system was invented a quarter-century ago by a money manager named Michael...
red dot n.— «Gesturing across the wood-paneled office, he points to a relief map of Indonesia and the surrounding region mounted on the far wall. “It’s OK with me, but there are 211 million people (in Indonesia),” he says...
blast n.— «The company is paying et al Associates, an e-mail marketing company based in Allen, Texas, $7,500 for a 90-day spam blast that will deliver 10 million e-mails to people who have opted to receive information about health and...
office wife n.— «“I’m not very much pleased with the way you and Ted Jones and Jim Farrel cut up. They call you ‘our office wife’ and act as if they had known you all their lives.” “Office wife?” repeated Helen...
black-rose v.— «He assumed he was “black-rosed,” a term for a complete severing of relations that Glanville had employed during his coaching days.» —“Glanville, Jones make up in Hawaii” by Steve...
front up v. phr.— «After his third loss on the trot, the second defeat conceded after having a significant lead, Jones was, to use an Australianism, “fronting up” to the stick he knew he and his team were bound to cop...