giro day

giro day
   British
   the day of the week in which the state makes payment to those without work and others thought deserving
   With dependency, wholly or in part, on fiscal redistribution by government affecting some 40% of the population, it is not the day to choose to buy a stamp from any post office through which the majority of giro cash payments are made:
    It's not Giro day. They're all up and about on Giro day. That's tomorrow. In the winter some of them only move once a week. (L. Thomas, 1996)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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