They gasped at the sight of the beheaded king.

If Quebeckers believe that voting PQ means putting a knife to Canada’s throat, they should think again. The ROC is fed up with these threats.

You're a suspicious-looking cove, and you'll comerlongerme! I'm a plain clothes man, I am.

Partnering, along with its less irritating cousin partnership, crops up all over the place, being equally useful to the lazy jargoneer and the lazy policy-maker. It has been said that there is no noun which cannot be verbed; in the same way, there is now nothing, concrete or abstract, which cannot be partnered.