Blessing Way n.— «The Blessing Way has been adapted as an alternative baby shower for spiritual moms in recent years. This is much less commercial and much more personal, intimate way to honor the blessed event of a birth. During Blessing...
tampon rock n.— «The other day I came across one of the most descriptive and appropriate genre titles. The lead singer of Dragonette called her previous work “Tampon Rock.” This genre is girls or women with guitars or a piano...
motor n.— «Officer Santos is one of 72 motorcycle officers assigned to traffic enforcement in the city. In part, because of that large number of motors, as they’re called, injury collisions involving Fresno drivers have dropped almost 30%...
lofter n.— «In recent years, Capone’s target demographic of business casual-clad office workers has begun to shift thanks to the residential movement that has brought “lofters,” as she called them, to the Square. Last winter, Capone...
put the cherry on (something) v. phr.— «Regardless, as they say in Texas, Oprah put the cherry on the Sunday.» —“She Speaks Well Of Humanity” by Liz Smith New York Post (New York City) May 22, 2007. (source:...
spinny n.— «So is being a “spinny”—modern parlance for spinsterhood—such a bad thing?» —“The new singletons: Not so young, but free and single” by Liz Hoggard Independent (United Kingdom) Apr...