Phrases/words that you love

[Roslynmuse]

"Bach: Works for Strumpet" ...sounds more like a libellous headline than La Balsom's latest album...

Reminds me of the apochryphal answer to the question 'Describe the difference between Bach and Handel' - 'Bach's organ is made to work more vigorously at the climax'.

And the famous graffito on the volume entitled 'Bach's Organ Works' - 'So Does Mine'

[Flay]

Codpiece

It brings to mind a foul, fetid grimy garment, with more than a slight odour of fish!

[Don Petter]

As a birder, I'm particularly fond of
Pratincole
Phalarope
Sanderling

and, er,

Dotterel

Which reminds me of

dottle

A nice word for a rather repulsive object. (I used to indulge, many years ago.)

[kernelbogey]

Now you're talking!!

Up there with 'strumpet' and 'dollop', as words I must use more often!

'He travelled the Thames regularly by quinquereme, accompanied by his strumpet, and usually carrying a dollop of pink grapefruit.'

[Pabmusic]

I am very fond of "What's yours, then?", or its variant, "What're you havin'?".

[Nick Armstrong]

'He travelled the Thames regularly by quinquereme, accompanied by his strumpet, and usually carrying a dollop of pink grapefruit.'

Funny you say that, I shall be boarding a quinquereme this evening to ride upon the Thames to the O2 Centre... Not sure yet about the availability of pamplemousse and strumpet, though!

[Pabmusic]

Funny you say that, I shall be boarding a quinquereme this evening to ride upon the Thames to the O2 Centre... Not sure yet about the availability of pamplemousse and strumpet, though!

But surely quinqueremes are from Nineveh?

[Nick Armstrong]

But surely quinqueremes are from Nineveh?

Gift to London from the Assyrian 2012 Olympic Committee mate

[Pabmusic]

Gift to London from the Assyrian 2012 Olympic Committee mate

What are they after, then?

[Nick Armstrong]

What are they after, then?

A fold to swoop down on, wolf-like?

[Pabmusic]

A fold to swoop down on, wolf-like?

They'd better watch out, lest the widows of Ashur be loud in their wail. (Presumably because their Olympic rowers didn't qualify.)

[No matter - I'm just being Byronic.]

[Flosshilde]

the widows of Ashur be loud in their wail.

Are their organs liberal?

[mangerton]

I am very fond of "What's yours, then?", or its variant, "What're you havin'?".

A common variant in Scotland is the philosophical "What are you for?"

[amateur51]

Oh ho... if we're playing the "Face like a..." game, there's a few others I love too...

A face like a...

...bulldog chewing a wasp
...bag of spanners
...smashed crab
...smacked a*se

My colleagues and I developed our own shorthand, and Face Like A Smack Arse became FLASMA.

The adjectival form is of course flasmatic as in "he was totally flasmatic after I'd told him"

[amateur51]

Emolument rolls nicely around the mouth