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toe-touch

toe-touch
 n.— «When a correspondent travels, it should be to report for the newspaper. If deadline constraints mean that the reporter will make no significant contribution to someone else;s work, we should skip the trip—the “toe touch” that serves only to justify a dateline artificially beneath the byline.» —by N.Y. Times Co. Siegal Committee Report July 30, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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