* We all know, of course, what “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” are. But how about “Brown Friday?” That’s the designation of the day after Thanksgiving by plumbers. Let’s leave it at that.
* “Rises on rumors. Falls on facts.” Still an applicable truism for stock market dynamics.
* “A one-armed economist.” What President Harry Truman whimsically wished for as a way of addressing economists’ penchant for saying: “But on the other hand.”
* “Now comes good sailing.”–What Henry David Thoreau whispered to his sister on his deathbed.
* “They.” For now, it seems the most acceptable neutral pronoun for trans-sexual individuals. However, “they” is a distractingly ungrammatical malaprop. How about “shim,” a grammar-conforming blend of she and him?