The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
SHOALWISE
Etymology
Adverb
shoalwise (not comparable)
In or as a shoal.
Tell me, good sir, if you know it;
Tell me truly, what's the reason
Why the people to Kingussie
Shoalwise flock in summer season?
Source: Wiktionary
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GUILLOTINE
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
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