Outside the asylum gates a brass band huffed and thumped with brazen sneezes, silver whiffets, thundering sonorities and a detonating drum, the descant hitched together by a fat woman in a Tyrolese hat and the Erlkönig's longcoat that flocked upon her hips as she squeezed and pulled a Polish accordion as big as a sheep, dipping her knees on the saltarelli and rolling her eyes in a clown's gloat.

I am a mageirocophobic. There, I've said it. My mother has mageirocophobia, and her mother wasn't so hot in the kitchen either.

Coordinate term: horizontal escalation

The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.