new wrinkle



new wrinkle

A clever device or expedient, a novelty, as in The players added a new wrinkle to victory celebrations by tossing their shirts to the crowd after the game . In the form of simply a wrinkle, this expression dates from the mid-1700s, new being added two centuries later.
See also: new, wrinkle

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
AubreyAWB-reeEnglish
&Thorn;ÓRr-Norse Mythology
Ritika-Indian, Hindi
Blagoj-Macedonian
GalahadGAL-ə-had (English)Arthurian Romance
SimonSIE-mən (English), see-MAWN (French), ZEE-mawn (German), SEE-mawn (Dutch)English, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Slovene, Romanian, Macedonian