spigot
Speech parts
1. spigot - Noun
2. spigot - Verb
Meaning
A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
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We have all the cards, but we don't know how to use them. We don't even know that we have the cards, because our leaders don't understand the game. We could turn off that spigot by charging them tax until they behave properly.
MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.
Maitre d's are at the financial spigot of the restaurant, meaning they control who gets in and who doesn't, but aside from that, they don't do anything. And yet they get paid as much as the highest-paid people in the place.
And in recent months, Mr. Miller has argued that the economic distress caused by the virus has made it even more important to turn off the spigot.
“That puts a dark cloud in the rearview mirror and really opens the spigot for investor appetite.”
Overall, the ZeroWater ZP-010 made my job pretty easy here -- it completely dominated in terms of removing TDS and also happened to have the sturdiest design with the bonus addition of a water spigot.