throw shade
v. phr.— «Throwing Shade: Expressing an attitude of contempt for a competitor during a competition by mimicking or gesturing, etc.» —“A Pose For The ‘80s” by Dottie Enrico Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) May 9, 1989. (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...
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