road diet n.— «When roads were actually closed, or their capacity severely reduced, 20 per cent to 60 per cent of the former traffic disappears entirely. It isn’t even siphoned off onto other roads. People just travel less. Some experts...
mugu n.— «They’ll then press the dupe—or Mugu as he’s derisively known in Africa—for more money to buy chemicals that can be obtained only from the American treasury department to wash the rest of the money.» —“E-mail from...
chippy adj.— «Because the current relationship the board has with the top politician running the Ministry of Education—the hand that feeds—has, shall we say, been somewhat chippy of late.» —“Special-ed spending spree bites hand that...
on one’s bicycle adj.— «She never got on her bicycle, as they say in ring parlance about excessively defensive fighters, during her boxing career.» —“Lady boxer will hang up her gloves” by Jim Kernaghan London Free...
death cross n.— «You probably won’t take any comfort in learning that a technical indicator for the Dow Jones industrial average is pointing to a so-called “death cross.” The nasty-sounding indicator pops up when an index’s 50...
Gretzky Jofa n.— «As a teen he played with a Jofa model made famous by Wayne Gretzky. The lightweight helmet had no internal padding and was not CSA approved. “It wasn’t even made for hockey, it was designed for canoeing,” he...