pocket wilderness n.— «Jordan Linger, 21, and John Lockley, 19, both of Fort Oglethorpe had been reported missing about midnight Thursday after they didn’t return from a day hike in an area known as the “pocket wilderness” on Mowbray Mountain...
midnight plumber n.— «Why would thieves—midnight plumbers as the police call them—tear out the floorboards, toilets, even the walls of the homes, all in search of copper tubing?» —“With the Price of Copper Up, the Plumbing Can Go Missing” by Sean D...
vomit comet n.— «A San Juan travel agent indelicately calls it the “vomit comet”—an allusion, I imagine, to the great number of babes in arms or inexperienced travelers aboard the planes. It was therefore with some misgiving that I booked a seat on...
Jenny Crank n.— «Well, you can get on the Jenny Crank diet….Tweek for breakfast…Tweek for brunch….Tweek for lunch….Tweek for Dinner….Tweek for Dessert….Tweek for midnight snack….Tweek for 3am snack….Repeat over and over.» —“Re: don’t wanna eat” by...
land of fruit and nuts n.— «You can make book on some of the people who were there. That is, if you get a chance to see them peform before some midnight rider from the William Morris Agency makes off with them to the land of fruits and nuts.» —“Ted...
hot wash n.— «After the play the training audience gets a good night’s rest while the control cell burns the midnight oil analyzing the data and composing the debrief. This hot wash is given the next day. It summarizes the events from an overall...