| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Words going out of use | |
| Posted by: | Brian Coyle | |
| Date/Time: | 18/09/24 17:09:00 |
| Or even 'cobblers'. How about a 'double whammy', meaning a situation when two unpleasant things happen at almost the same time, e.g. you bump into Keir Starmer, and then Rachel Reeves - also known as a nightmare, and more than enough to give you the screaming (h)abdabs - nervous anxiety. Also when out driving, try not to prang your car, and make sure your sprog is strapped in appropriately. Quite a few of us will remember 'The Good Old Days', with Leonard Sachs: "Sachs introduced the next act with alliterative attacks of alarming alacrity in a constipated display of perspicacious polysyllabic peripatetics, which heralded the appearance of a teaming torrent of tempting talent . . . for our delight and delectation, naturally". So, a transcendental terpsichorean event, for example, would be something you might find on Strictly Come Dancing. |