New to me and found on a New Yorker

[AmzngGrace]

Crossword.

The question was:
Over the ___ (unsolicited)

OK boaties

...Over the transom

Nice.
I am using it inspite of being maybe a little OTT myself.

[Vasco]

Yardarm

[psk125]

Sorry, but a manuscript coming in over the transom (unsolicited) refers to the transom window above an office door - nothing to do with a boat. Over the yardarm - that's different.

[AmzngGrace]

Originally Posted by psk125

Sorry, but a manuscript coming in over the transom (unsolicited) refers to the transom window above an office door - nothing to do with a boat. Over the yardarm - that's different.

Wow now I am learning something, transom window... thank you. )

[JPA Cate]

They had transom windows over the doors in the junior high school and high schools to which I went as a child. "Door monitors" used a pole with a fitted hook on the end to unlatch them for greater ventilation. Sort of like boat hooks, actually, or "pruning hooks."


Ann

[AKA-None]

No ac and windows that opened

[StuM]

"In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it."

But note:
"Transom or transom window is also the customary U.S. word used for a transom light, the window over this crosspiece."

Note the idiom is referring to the bar, not the window, thus "over the transom"
i.e it came through the window over the transom. (not "through the transom")

[jimbunyard]

To be even more ambiguous.

Over the ____ (unwanted)

Ignorant New Yorkers...