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• One-Shot Case Study, n.: The scientific equivalent of the four-leaf clover, from which it is concluded all clovers possess four leaves and are sometimes green.
• Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
• moking clover n. [ITS] A display hack originally due to Bill Gosper.
  Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor in such a way that every pixel struck has its color incremented....
• moking clover: [ITS] n. A {display hack} originally due to Bill Gosper.
  Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor in {AOS} mode (so that every pixel struck has its color incremented)....
• If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
  -- Stanislaw Lec -- Unkempt Though...
• clue-by-four [Usenet: portmanteau, clue + two-by-four] The notional stick with which one whacks an aggressively clueless person.
  This term derives from a western American folk saying about training a mule "First, you got to hit him with a two-by-four....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....