Ever have one of those days when a word or a name gets stuck in your head? It's like the dreaded last-song-syndrome but without the melody. Even worse, you can't easily place where and when you heard it, and its meaning momentarily escapes you. Here's mine for today:
Casus Belli
Latin; literally "case of war". Usually refers to an incident or threat that justifies going into war. For example, the invasion of Poland was the casus belli used by the West to go into war with Germany; in contrast, the Holocaust was the ex-post justification for the war.
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