The CSM has a list of some new(er) expressions currently being used in Washington, provided by Grant Barrett, editor of Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Slang. Sample:
Throw red meat, v. to appease, satisfy, rally, or excite one’s (political) supporters. Usually trans.: throw red meat to the lions, the wolves, the sharks, etc.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.