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What a difference a few letters make from loiswakeman 384 days old
"The impingement of my motive is very unfair" - Immigration Minister Phil Woolas interviewed by Ed Stourton on the Today programme I assume our Phil ...
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Extol and exhort from loiswakeman 605 days old
First in a series of words that often get mistaken. Heard on The Food Programme (Radio 4) yesterday: "We are being extolled to sprinkle salt on our ...
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Wonky saying of the week from loiswakeman 976 days old
[ ... ] BBC Radio 4 yesterday Makes a change from a mixed metaphor I suppose: a cack-handed conflation of the saying "You can't have your cake and ...
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Trips of(f) the tongue from loiswakeman 1014 days old
[ ... ] the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning, the newsreader (Susan Ray) said - of the incident in which a British man fell to his death from a ...
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Bring on the nuclear chickens! from loiswakeman 1123 days old
"It's a wise country that doesn't put all its energy eggs in one basket." - Malcolm Wicks (energy minister, DTI) speaking on Today, BBC Radio ...
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Mixed metaphor of the day from loiswakeman 1157 days old
"I think we let out a lot of Trojan Horses when we opened that Pandora's Box" - Sir Norman Tebbit interviewed on The Frost Years, BBC Radio 4, a ...
