Clayton's
/ˈkleɪt(ə)nz
/adjective Australian /NZ informal
Not real or genuine; existing in name only: even this Clayton’s inquiry was forced to highlight major failures...
- This could be again another Clayton's promise: the promise you make when you are not really making a promise.
- He does not want to be Minister of Defence — he is another Clayton's Minister.
- I referred to it as a Clayton's relationship, ie a relationship you have when you don't have a relationship.
Origin
1980s: from the proprietary name of a soft drink marketed using the line ‘the drink you have when you're not having a drink’.
- exceptionalism
- exceptionality
- exceptionally
- excerpt
- excerptible
- excerption
- excess
- excess baggage
- excessive
- excessively
- excessiveness
- exch.
- exchange
- exchangeability
- exchangeable
- Exchange Alley
- exchange contracts
- exchange control
- exchanger
- exchange rate
- Exchange Rate Mechanism
- exchange-traded fund
- exchange transfusion
- exchequer
- excimer