what-do-you-call-it

“What we need,” said Charles lugubriously, “is a what-do-you-call-it, a person who studies languages.”

The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010

He said that if you had an accident before the what-do-you-call-it, the title, was transferred, I could get sued blind.

Just Take My Heart Mary Higgins Clark 2009

Avram was a dedicated communist with a beetled brow and he spat little word-flecks of contempt at the U.S., the system is corrupt, we will eat you for lunch, you are a what-do-you-call-it kind of culture, a mickey mouse culture, and that night Marvin had to make an emergency visit to the hotel toilet, where he unleashed a firewall of chemical waste.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

Avram was a dedicated communist with a beetled brow and he spat little word-flecks of contempt at the U.S., the system is corrupt, we will eat you for lunch, you are a what-do-you-call-it kind of culture, a mickey mouse culture, and that night Marvin had to make an emergency visit to the hotel toilet, where he unleashed a firewall of chemical waste.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

Avram was a dedicated communist with a beetled brow and he spat little word-flecks of contempt at the U.S., the system is corrupt, we will eat you for lunch, you are a what-do-you-call-it kind of culture, a mickey mouse culture, and that night Marvin had to make an emergency visit to the hotel toilet, where he unleashed a firewall of chemical waste.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

There was the photographic detailwork, the fineness of image, the what-do-you-call-it into littler units.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

There was the photographic detailwork, the fineness of image, the what-do-you-call-it into littler units.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

There was the photographic detailwork, the fineness of image, the what-do-you-call-it into littler units.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

And there was a ridge, not a great ridge, but a ridge as great as from the here to the what-do-you-call-it (HI BILIYEH EL HOK) that is yonder: and we marched to the ridge and it was barren.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

But as far as I can tell, Bell's mages are just doing the usual kinds of things mages in an army do—healing, scrying, investigating for a what-do-you-call-it.

Advance and Retreat Turtledove, Harry 2002