meatball surgery n.— «Alternately, you have the style of surgery depicted on M.A.S.H.—the patient comes in all banged up, you zip him open, do the minimum amount of work required to repair the damage, and send him out. All this while...
double carry n.— «“In effect, what we had to do was make every bit of forward progress two times over, going back each time to collect the remainder of our supplies and bringing it back to where we had stopped for the day,” explains...
run-off n.— «An insurer that closes to new business—called run-off in industry parlance—usually keeps a bare minimum of staff for as long as is necessary to honour claims being lodged on policies already sold.» —“sEnergy to go out of...
fill in the tree v. phr.— «GOP leaders may be forced to “fill the tree,” a procedural process by which they would offer a series of their own amendments in order to deny a vote on the Democratic minimum wage amendment...
tanda n.— «A minimum of 20 people participate, and the cost is $100 a week. Every week the players pay their share until the susu organizer collects a stack of bills totaling $2,000. And every week, one player takes home all the cash. The...
susu n.— «A minimum of 20 people participate, and the cost is $100 a week. Every week the players pay their share until the susu organizer collects a stack of bills totaling $2,000. And every week, one player takes home all the cash. The...