Dagwood sandwich

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The setup again is a Dagwood sandwich of horror tropes, but with different ingredients: naughty nuns, vivisection, exorcism and, I kid you not, aliens.

From Time • Oct. 17, 2012

As one of Groucho Marx's writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills.

From Time Magazine Archive