‘Let's have a cuppa tea,’ he said. ‘The tucker fuckers (cooks) aways do a bit extra, the bloody instructors always knock it off.’

24 hours of TV coverage of the US election verged on overkill.

For at the end of Bk. II. there is a lenvoy, commencing Rome, remember of thy foundation; it is one of the best of Lydgate's remarkable lenvoys, rendered pompous and sonorous by the monotony of its rhyme-system, for it has only three rhymes in its 126 lines (133 in Tottel's)!

She’s a very loud urinater.