The furry little mascot is honoured for his prodigious engineering skills. The word has a rather different connotation among engineers in locker rooms. Prim Miss Eudora regards it as red hot. Our mascot may go. They are all no-chilli items.
American journalists are inveterate minters of racy slang.
Some of the most durable jargon is that devised by American radio journalists doing road traffic bulletins. I can't get to the bottom of some of the most used turns of phrase. Neither can Americans fill me in. I've heard say that nine yards was the length of a .50 calibre machine gun belt, on the second world war Corsair fighter plane.