family photo n.— «The Luxembourg meeting will be primarily a “family photo” affair with the four applicants for membership.» —“Common Mart Sets Membership Talks” by Don Cook in Paris Los Angeles Times May 13, 1970. (source: Double-Tongued...
kiss and ride n.— «I believe we are going to have co-ordination between automobiles and rapid transit.…It will be park and ride or kiss and ride—where the wife takes the husband to the rapid transit line and kisses him good-by.» —“Transit Plan...
matchy-matchy
adj.— «Pleased to see a strong movement away from matchy-matchy suites of furniture. To me, nothing is duller.» —“Designers Agree on Furnishings Trend” Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 1964. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
laugh like a drain v. phr.— «My dad was a huge Peter Sellers fan. If you’re in for two minutes, you’re in for two hours at my house. And it was always a nice truce. Because my dad was from Liverpool—he didn’t have a bad temper, but he was like a...
one-finger peace sign n.— «Last year, as he and 500 others walked across the country on the Great Peace March, onlookers—”Some with a smile, some displaying the one-finger “peace sign’” as one marcher put it—yelled: “Why don’t you go do this in...
shotgun v.— «Tully shows how the spider network of many agencies and 16,000 persons has shotgunned the world with surveillance units and intercept nets.» —“Eavesdropping on Super Spies” by Keith S. Felton Los Angeles Times Mar. 29, 1970. (source:...