Christmas Tree Effect

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:28:22PM -0500, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>    From the WALL STREET JOURNAL, 2 February 2001, pg. 1, col. 6:


> The "Christmas Tree" Effect
> (...)  (Pg. 6, col. 4--ed.)
>    "We have to try not to load up the bill like a Christmas tree or it will collapse," he says.

Unusually for me, I don't have a copy of HDAS handy (must be that
baby balanced on my shoulder), but I'm pretty sure there's an
entry for "Christmas tree" in this sense.

Jesse Sheidlower