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Oh dear, @thetimes.com can’t tell the difference between a cassette and an 8-track cartridge
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How badly informed do you need to be not to know that Supreme Court Justices are not styled “Lord Justice” (which relates to judges of the lower Court of Appeal)? Shoddy subbing as usual from the Times. (since corrected, but astonishingly let through initially)
idioms4idiots.bsky.social
Sir Laurie is not a saint, is he?
idioms4idiots.bsky.social
Waiter, there’s a plane in my omelette
idioms4idiots.bsky.social
And if the battery’s flat, they can just push the car itself.
Drivers to be given new grant to push electric car sales (headline)
idioms4idiots.bsky.social
Well those are certainly impressive - suits you to a T sir!
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Nom de dieu! Another Times sub-fail
idioms4idiots.bsky.social
Why are large sums of money always described as "eye-watering"?

Why not "throat-clenching" or "scrotum-tightening" or some other redundant formulation?

What makes your eyes water is sadness, or pain, or a howling wind on a cold day. Talk some sense, please, journalists.
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They broke up, they tore it down, they crumbled it to dust…
I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times:
British soldiers conquer Everest using groundbreaking method. https://www.thetimes.com/article/6c16eb0d-a6da-4a03-b648-5b678a00f7df?shareToken=a9facb62cb1087bd3c6553044f835622
idioms4idiots.bsky.social
And remember, you can’t climb down until you have ‘stepped up’, eh?
idioms4idiots.bsky.social
Surely he ‘threw fishermen overboard’ or ‘sold them down the river’?

What’s all this about climbing? Are the fish up a mountain?
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Won’t you subscribe to my Spudsack?