tiger bench
n.— «We have been talking on a daily basis with people who have been tortured on tiger benches.» —“China Strapped to the Tiger Bench: the Degradation of a Nation” by Jiao Guobiao Epoch Times (Washington, D.C.) Dec. 19, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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...