Warn: “Look out!”
Pre-warn: “Beware of low-flying elephants.”
perhaps?
And since advertisers can use the defence of “mere puffery”, over-exaggeration is clearly an impossibility.
Grumpy Sparrer
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Whose side , exactly, are you on?
Even grumpier Gus. [grinnity]
It is impossible to underestimate* my current level of tetch. ( Not improved by autocarrot’s valiant efforts. Not ‘fetch’, you fool, do I look like a … ah. Well eff off anyway. And it’s never duck.)
*oh no it’s not. Quite the reverse, chums.
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‘SENCO have said he will be ok at mainstream secondary. With support and neutering’
Finally saying the quiet bit out loud?
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Took me ages to work out what it was supposed to say. I blame the heat.
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Apparently it ‘takes two to tangle’.
< grindity of teef >
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I … sipped the glass of water she had provided, rationing it as sweat beaded on my upper lip and trickled down my back.
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She must have weird anatomy!
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He had assured Mrs Thing that he would keep her informed, shaken hands with A and B, and strode out of the house, leaving me to follow as quickly as I could
I feel ‘strode’ should be ‘stridden’ or, at a pinch, ‘strod’.
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When, in UK usage, did ‘cheese and biscuits’ become ‘cheese and crackers’?
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Didn’t know it had. Presumably when people noticed that there are biscuits called “cream crackers” which can be eaten with cheese, so any time since the Irish firm Jacobs started to market them in 1885.
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Hence ‘a swift knee in the Jacobs’, yes.
Nevertheless, for a really quite extended period after the appearance of JCCs, what was offered on menus and in the home was cheese and biscuits, even if some or all of the biscuits in question were JCCs or indeed Ritz crackers. But now ‘crackers’ seems to be the dominant usage, and this mildly irritates me.
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