Petri Dish Ready

Petri Dish Ready
Organizations hoping to get stimulus money for scientific research are describing themselves as “petri dish ready” – an analogue of “shovel ready.”

[Hat tip: James Ledbetter, editor of The Big Money.]


Dictionary of unconsidered lexicographical trifles. 2014.

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