The English Companion: An Idiosyncratic Guide to England & Englishness from A to ZC.N. Potter, 1984 - 272 pages |
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Page 59
... Harold Wilson had to try to live down the charge that he had claimed to have gone to school barefoot . In truth he had said that when he was a boy growing up in Yorkshire , many children - though not Harold himself - had not possessed ...
... Harold Wilson had to try to live down the charge that he had claimed to have gone to school barefoot . In truth he had said that when he was a boy growing up in Yorkshire , many children - though not Harold himself - had not possessed ...
Page 121
... Harold Wilson quoted his wife Mary as saying that he had only one fault : he would smother everything she cooked in it . HP shares at once rose by half - a - crown on the Stock Exchange * , and were ever afterwards known as Wilson's ...
... Harold Wilson quoted his wife Mary as saying that he had only one fault : he would smother everything she cooked in it . HP shares at once rose by half - a - crown on the Stock Exchange * , and were ever afterwards known as Wilson's ...
Page 199
... Harold Wilson may have shown the richer sense of metaphor - " The gnomes of Zurich ' - " The gnomes of Zurich ' - but it was left to patrician Alec Douglas - Home , mocked by Wilson for being the four- teenth earl , to come up with the ...
... Harold Wilson may have shown the richer sense of metaphor - " The gnomes of Zurich ' - " The gnomes of Zurich ' - but it was left to patrician Alec Douglas - Home , mocked by Wilson for being the four- teenth earl , to come up with the ...
Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
British English for American Readers: A Dictionary of the Language, Customs ... David Grote No preview available - 1992 |