Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[ahinton]

'They Need Us More Than We Need Them.'

...but they're hopefully no longer to have us...

'We Hold All The Cards'

...and we're going to play poker with them only we don't know the rules of the game (or, alternatively, we all know what happens when the House of Commons becomes a House of Cards)...

"We are where we are" - only haven't we always been so at any given time?

All of which lends additional credence to the facts that (a) people without firearms licences who pull triggers risk shooting themselves in the foot and (b) people who write letters to Tusks risk being trodden on by the elephant...

[gurnemanz]

'We Hold All The Cards'

... and we're going to throw them in the air and see how they land.

[ahinton]

... and we're going to throw them in the air and see how they land.

... or "we're going to throw them in the air and not bother how they land"...

If not, the most that's I imagine is likely to happen to them is that they get shuffled.

At least they include no Trump.

If UK leaves, there'll be no need for the clubs. Let's hope that the negotiators' hearts are not in their work. The cost of Brexit will probably have to be accounted for in diamonds which unfortunately UK will not have in spades. Moreover, there's more than one joker in the pack.

That said, they're probably Tarot cards anyway...

[Serial_Apologist]

Would you trust a British Government minister to be in charge of Brexit if he were to say integral, rather than integral?

I certainly wouldn't!

[P. G. Tipps]

Would you trust a British Government minister to be in charge of Brexit if he were to say integral, rather than integral?

I certainly wouldn't!

I wouldn't trust a British Government Minister to be in charge of Brexit whatever he said ...

[Lat-Literal]

My favourite phrase of the week was in an e-mail from a friend who was a walking pal of mine and began working life as a painter and decorator. It is "Orlando might miss out on a lovely job in Ghent though". The full context was: "I voted leave. On environmental grounds entirely. At a team meeting the Chair asked everyone who was for remain to go to one end of the room and everyone who was for leave to go to the other. 15 people promptly went to one end and just I to the other. The corporate culture here......it was absolutely assumed that we are all basically the same (middle class elite above normal working people). After a bit of an embarrassed silence the Chair asked why and I explained. I then asked for their reasons and got nothing! It was not a bad tempered affair in any way but very telling really. It's the biggest sulk in history. At the end of the day I expect the decision to make very little difference to most people. Orlando might miss out on a lovely job in Ghent though." The shocking part is that he is a middle ranking civil servant, the key moment occurred in his Department HQ under the previous PM and he had no right to privacy in his vote. I believe that regime was the worst in our history. It delivered 52%.

(Probably needless to say neither he nor I have ever known anyone called Orlando)

[subcontrabass]

Would you trust a British Government minister to be in charge of Brexit if he were to say integral, rather than integral?

I certainly wouldn't!

Is he using it as an adjective or a noun? I use the first pronunciation for an adjective when it is not followed by its related noun (e.g. "X is integral to ..."), and the second in most other circumstances.

[vinteuil]

...Probably needless to say neither he nor I have ever known anyone called Orlando

When I was an undergraduate I knew Orlando Gough

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Gough

[Lat-Literal]

When I was an undergraduate I knew Orlando Gough


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Gough

I'm impressed.

When I was at that fine institution we call the UN, my best mate was called Dave Gough.

But he was just a senior chemist from the Health and Safety Executive.

(He warned me not to go to L'Escalade because it was "too much like the Orange Order" and I would "get hot soup poured onto (my) head by angry women" but I went anyway)

[P. G. Tipps]

The shocking part is that he is a middle ranking civil servant, the key moment occurred in his Department HQ under the previous PM and he had no right to privacy in his vote. I believe that regime was the worst in our history. It delivered 52%.

Unbelievably the previous PM was interviewed on TV yesterday about the 'Triggering'. Needless to say he then proceeded to pontificate about what everybody involved should do next. I had naively thought he might have hidden himself away out of public sight and hearing for quite a bit longer and hopefully for good. ?

(Probably needless to say neither he nor I have ever known anyone called Orlando)

Though we never met ...

http://www.famousfix.com/topic/orlando-gibbons

[vinteuil]

He warned me not to go to L'Escalade because it was "too much like the Orange Order" and I would "get hot soup poured onto (my) head by angry women" but I went anyway...

.


... for them as might want to know what latlit is on about -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Escalade

.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalade_(Gen%C3%A8ve)

[jean]

Though we never met ...

http://www.famousfix.com/topic/orlando-gibbons

Not to mention

[Lat-Literal]

.


... for them as might want to know what latlit is on about -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Escalade

.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalade_(Gen%C3%A8ve)

Unbelievably the previous PM was interviewed on TV yesterday about the 'Triggering'. Needless to say he then proceeded to pontificate about what everybody involved should do next. I had naively thought he might have hidden himself away out of public sight and hearing for quite a bit longer and hopefully for good. ?

Though we never met ...

http://www.famousfix.com/topic/orlando-gibbons

Not to mention

[Stanfordian]

As much as I like my heart beating I am constantly hearing the phrase especially on TV "In a heartbeat".

For example: The police interceptors caught up with the offending vehicle in a heartbeat.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Bergolree" for Burglary.

I remember having my pronunciation of this word corrected as a child, but this was uttered by the charming and nicely spoken news presenter on the BBC London Regional News just now!