Christmas stocking

If I got one of those suckers in my Christmas stocking or trick-or-treating, I was like, “All right!”

The commission’s rulings “grant PG&E an enormous Christmas stocking stuffed with ratepayer money for the bloated extension of Diablo Canyon,” said David Weisman, legislative director at the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility.

Even into the 1950s, kids living in snowbound American climes might find an orange — one solitary, precious orange — sagging in the toe of their Christmas stocking.

"Teenage boys bought their first suits for prom, twenty-something women picked up signature florals to wear at friend’s wedding and Christmas stockings were packed full of branded fragrances and lotions," she said.

In the blizzard of guesswork about politics in the coming year, there's a fact as solid as a lump of coal at the bottom of your Christmas stocking.