What is the point of the Daily Telegraph?
Another use of the bastardised from from Bruno Waterfield in the Daily Telegraph blog:
The West can talk a good Cold War but when push comes to shove, the EU is all mouth and no trousers - probably just as well.
To put it in Telegraph terms, that's yet another shaming failure of a supposedly educated person to use the Great British language. Do these people learn nothing at school (Eton, probably)?
The West can talk a good Cold War but when push comes to shove, the EU is all mouth and no trousers - probably just as well.
To put it in Telegraph terms, that's yet another shaming failure of a supposedly educated person to use the Great British language. Do these people learn nothing at school (Eton, probably)?
posted by Tim Chapman at 3:06 pm
2 Comments:
Tim. Thanks for putting me right. I picked up the expression when I was living and working in Manchester (S&N's Royal Brewery). My tin southern ears have had it wrong for years. I will make my shame public. Sadly, I was not schooled at Eton. I was educated in fine comprehensive and grammar schools in Ashford, Kent.
And thank you for taking it in good grace, Bruno. I'm just trying to do my bit to maintain standards.
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