All able men, adds Macaulay, ridiculed him as a dunce, a driveller, a child who never knew his own mind an hour together; and yet he overreached them all. ]

Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor.

Hey, sport! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.

So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.