(construction, engineering) A method of building a tunnel by digging a trench, constructing tunnel walls therein, and refilling the trench with earth.

Alternative form of damned if one does and damned if one doesn't

(slang) Something very special.

An exhortation to follow the principle of removing women and children from danger before men.

Uncultured and without laws.

Describing a car park in which the motorist obtains a ticket (for a specified period) from a coin-operated machine and displays it in the car so it can be checked by a parking attendant.

(idiomatic, figuratively) To support both sides of an argument.

A seven-note riff played at the end of a song for comic effect.

(informal, business) A model of employee productivity in which workers are ranked into the top 20 percent, the adequate 70 percent, or the bottom 10 percent, and those in the bottom group are fired.

(derogatory, offensive) Only heterosexual relations are normal.