Why not haul out fresh manure and cover?

[…]as a result of which, the two scenarios in which the Harwich Force caught up with the battle while it was still going on were considered and brought forward into the main timeline, as it meant that both sides' light screening forces actually got to do something other than die pointlessly.

Picking at the fine construances of words—half of which come to us through translations of dubious accuracy—would be no ally to our need for alacrity.

Teleplay by Kenneth Biller and Jeri Taylor.