two WOTY candidates for the price of one (or none)

[Laurence Horn]

Not great ones, but…

"hail-Mary-moon"
"save-cation"

--both used to describe a situation in which "with time ticking toward a breakup, troubled couples are planning one final, against-all-odds vacation in a desperate play [sic--for "ploy"?] to snatch romance from the jaws of divorce"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/fashion/the-hail-mary-moon.html

LH

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