visual guilt n.— «You might think that given the opportunity to book their own business trips, more people would opt for more-expensive choices, like a nicer hotel or a perfectly timed—and pricier—flight. But travel-management companies...
gymbot n.— «The value of spending a full day inside a gym is that it gives one the opportunity to survey a rich gallery of human types: the male gymbots with their proud bosoms and stick legs.» —“24-Hour Sweaty People” by...
cow-dust hour n.— «Twilight is a special threshold moment in most shamanic traditions. This is the cow-dust hour, the window of opportunity at which to invoke the mystery of solar transformation through the Gayatri Mantra. Neither...
spring broke adj.— «Although I was “spring broke” this year, I did have the opportunity to experience Spring Break as a senior in high school.» —“Up, Down and Out” by Naomi Goldin in Cornell...
open the kimono v. phr.— «In this situation it’s essential for ABC to inform readers as to the disciplinary action taken. Was the offending reporter fired? Suspended? Given a stern talking to? Was a note put in their file? Maybe. ABC...
worthmore adj.— «He said there is “far greater” opportunity in the developing world as consumers trade up from lower quality, cheap beer, into modernised mainstream products and then on into what it refers to as...