talent bucket
n.— «Chieftain personnel wasn’t too awe-inspiring to start with but OCU was at least competitive until 12 days ago. That’s when the bottom started dropping out of the talent bucket.» —“Lemons: OCU Should Be A ‘Cakewalk’ for Loyola” by Volney Meece Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Ok.) Jan. 26, 1985. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Cat hair may be something you brush off, but cat hair is also a slang term that means “money.” In the same way, cat beer isn’t alcoholic — some people use cat beer as a joking term for “milk.” And imagine walking on a...