Last time we played Cardiff, in the early 80s, we kicked the fuck out of them, cut them to pieces.

strengthen one's authority

There has since been a bangtail muster and already 1,400 cattle are in hand.

a hall stood; o’er whose roof Fair clinging weeds with ivy pale did grow, Clasping its gray rents with a verdurous woof, A hanging dome of leaves, a canopy moon-proof.