wrap-around mortgage adj.— «Featured topics will be equity participation, the wrap-around mortgage, and the techniques of investment in income-producing property.» —“Mortgage Bankers Meeting to Be Held Here Tomorrow” Chicago Tribune Oct. 20, 1968...
lockup n.— «Remember that tomorrow we’ll have everything that you need on the Budget, the National Budget and don’t miss the Money website. One minute past two our intrepid reporters, three of them, who are inside the lockup, as it is called, so...
who laid the rail adv. phr.— «If the poolrooms were to shut up tomorrow, we have enough material already in hand to keep us busy for months. That could not stop us. We are going to smoke them out for who laid the rail.» —“Policy Is...
spray and pray v. phr.— «Drug companies are not ready to abandon the “spray and pray” random sampling of compounds to find potential new drugs, but excitement is growing about using computers to design tomorrow’s pharmaceuticals in a more rational...
cotton curtain n.— «This very afternoon he had left the office of his agent in New York, tonight would stop off at his house in Bucks County, and tomorrow would head south, under the “cotton curtain,” as he expressed it.» —by Walker Percy The Last...
chemical cosh n.— «These drugs can make people more manageable and less demanding. They have been implicated in the torture of prisoners in Soviet psychiatric prisons. Allegations concerning their use as the “chemical cosh” continues to emerge from...