Spaghetti Bowl n.— «From the strip, take [15] North to the [93/95] North (to “Mercury”) through the Spaghetti Bowl (just look for all those annoying Fitzgerald’s billboards), stay in the right lane and exit Rancho, turn Right...
3,000-mile screwdriver n.— «How about some detail of the engine? EFI? Q-jet? or what…3000 mile screwdriver with no details.» —“Re: Gas Pig—Where To Start?” Usenet: rec.autos.4×4 Nov. 12, 1996. (source:...
7,000-mile screwdriver n. micromanagement of a situation from afar. Editorial Note: The number of miles used varies depending upon the speaker and the situation. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
three-thousand-mile screwdriver n.— «Whether filters will or should be installed, and whether this encourages the use of the proverbial three thousand mile screwdriver : that is, command and control from very far afield—are matters for...
stag n.— «The young gunner from an artillery unit drafted in to the province as makeshift infantrymen was on sentry duty—”stag” in army parlance—in a sandbagged sangar when the first IRA rounds whistled in, fired from tubes...
leave everything on the field v. phr.— «First he held forth at length the press conference for long stretches, then spent three solid hours that evening at the CBS party at the Rose Bowl, glad-handing critics on the stadium turf and...