yellow pad

noun

1. a scratch pad of yellow, lined paper.

Example Sentences

On a lined yellow pad, Don Henley, with input from band co-founder Glenn Frey, jotted thoughts about “a dark desert highway” and “a lovely place” with a luxurious surface and ominous undertones.

From Seattle Times

Probabilistic decision-making tends to be better decision-making, Robert Rubin has learned with help from a yellow pad.

From New York Times

But he listened to Ogletree intently at their meeting, taking notes on his “legendary yellow pad,” as Ogletree, who would become a celebrated Harvard law professor himself, wrote in 2004 in The Harvard Law Review.

From New York Times

Using software like YieldStar is "taking what we used to do manually on a yellow pad and calling people on the phone and putting it on a codified system where you take the errors out of the pricing," he said.

From Salon

For a bee, landing on a hot yellow pad would be like us “touching a hot plate,” says lead author Matilda Rose Gibbons, a behavioral neuroscientist and Ph.D. student in Chittka’s lab.

From Science Magazine