2001 Week (US) 4 May 17: You feel like you’re back at school, quaking at your desk as some battle-ax of a teacher rips into the slowest kid in the class.at battle-axe, n.1
2001 Week (US) 8 June 25: This ‘blockheaded, hollow-hearted industrial enterprise’ of a movie.at blockheaded, adj.
2001 Week (US) 4 May 25: She’s intrigued by her power to ‘push his vunerable on and off buttons’.at press someone’s button(s) (v.) under button, n.1
2001 Week (US) 8 June 25: Dressed in loud Hawaiian shirts and ‘armed with can-do moxie’.at can-do, adj.
2001 Week (US) 1 June 24: Taking on every convention of Broadway musicals – cheesy dialogue, ridiculous plots.at cheesy, adj.2
2001 Week (US) 29 June 6: He was only a scapegoat for a practice of accepting kickbacks that was common in the ’80s and ’90s.at kickback, n.1
2001 Week (US) 29 June 19: The idea of wrinkled people having sex just throws them for a loop.at throw for a loop (v.) under loop, n.2
2001 Week (US) 1 June 25: Like when a moony Lopez pieces together the dandelion puff ball.at moony, adj.
2001 Week (US) 8 June 25: Dressed in loud Hawaiian shirts and ‘armed with can-do moxie’.at moxie, n.2
2001 Week (US) 1 June 23: Ehrenreich offers no suggestions [...] and is ‘mum’ on universal health care.at mum, adj.
2001 Week (US) 4 May 17: Some battle-ax of a teacher rips into the slowest kid in the class.at rip into (v.) under rip, v.
2001 Week (US) 27 Apr. 12: Russia pretends to be rejecting the West, when it knows it needs to suck up instead.at suck up, v.
2001 Week (US) 4 May 8: James King has a thing about cars. ‘When I move out to California I’m gonna have 20 million different cars.’.at have a thing about (v.) under thing, n.
2001 Week (US) 29 June 23: First they’d have to admit they see themselves as the pompous windbag at the centre of his dark comedy.at windbag, n.