tiger mark
n.— «I call my amazing stretch marks my “Tiger Marks.” (ROoooaarrrr!) I love them except when they itch.» —“Introduction…got long!” by mommy2katy MSN Groups: APhearts Oct. 9, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The now-extinct Tocharian languages were spoken in western China in the latter half of the first millennium CE. We have only fragments of written texts in these languages, but here’s part of a Tocharian love poem that conveys emotions that echo...
A French idiom that means “to sleep in” or “lie around lazily in bed after waking” is faire la grasse matinée, literally to “make the fat morning.” If you fall in love easily, you’re said to have un coeur d’artichaut, or “an artichoke heart.” That...