think-do tank
n.— «Now he runs a consultancy that he described as the first Brussels “think-do tank,” and which rivals say is a lobbying firm masquerading as a research institute.» —“Lobbying Brussels: It’s getting crowded” by Dan Bilefsky in Brussels, Belgium International Herald Tribune (Paris, France) Oct. 28, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...
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...