Boiler room (business) protection. A fictional "boiler room" brokerage firm was dramatized in the 2000 film "Boiler Room", and the play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross" show a similar boiler room operation selling real estate. The 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, also involves a boiler-room investment business and is based on the memoir of convicted penny stock fraudster, Jordan Belfort. A 2010 episode of the television series "White Collar" depicted fictional conman Neal Caffrey infiltrating a group of corrupt brokers also peddling inflated penny stocks. Boiler room (business) In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound
Fossil word words were formed from other languages, by elision, or by mincing of other fixed phrases. Fossil word A fossil word is a word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom. Fossil status can also occur for word senses and for phrases. An example for a word sense is 'navy' in 'merchant navy', which means 'commercial fleet' (although that sense of navy is obsolete elsewhere). An example for a phrase is 'in point' (relevant), which is retained in the larger phrases 'case in point' (also 'case on point' in the legal context)