Number Expression Definitions
NextIn a recent contest in The Washington Post, readers were asked to take an expression using a number, add or subtract one, and create a new definition:
- The Year 2001 Problem: How to find jobs for all those programmers hired to solve the Year 2000 problem.
- Catch-23: Complete the previous catch before proceeding to this step.
- Fortune 501: Levi Strauss makes the list, but just by the seat of its pants.
- Motel 5: If you're not there by midnight, they turn off the light.
- Dressed to the Eights: Impeccably attired with white socks.
- Six Brides for Seven Brothers: Someone's gonna get hurt !
- Snow White and the Eight Dwarfs: The title, before they expelled Gassy.
- Five Eyes: Other kids can be so cruel when you are Siamese twins, and one of you is wearing a monocle.
- 665: The mark on the forehead of Satan's slightly less evil brother, Ralph.
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