Or les moteuax justes or however El Frogs do plurals:
While Michael Flanders loved a double entendre, the act that kept him and Donald Swann in shoe leather for a couple of decades
“Shoe leather” as a passing reference to someone confined to a wheelchair as a result of, I think, polio, might not be quite the right phrase.
The only worthwhile connection tween Max Hastings and a bottle of Madeira would be via his bonce.
Michael Flanders wore shoes. Not, perhaps, le mot intéressant from Tim.
. . polio which Flanders contracted while on active service in the RNVR in WW2, having been commissioned from a rating and already sunk by torpedo in a previous ship. A more-honourable service it would be difficult to imagine, which makes the ignorant, thoughtless jibe about ‘shoe leather’ from an upper-class twit like Hastings especially-galling.
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Michael Flanders wore shoes.
Indeed. But I doubt that he wore them out.
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“an upper-class twit like Hastings..”
He wishes.
Like anybody with an excess of plums in their mouth, Hastings is about as upper-class as Alf Garnett, but he would appreciate you thinking he is.
Or les moteuax justes or however El Frogs do plurals:
Les mots justes.
@ MC
+1
I assume that is what Tim meant
Max Hastings was educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford, which he left after a year. His parents were journalists, so hardly posh.
Although a grade A+++ prat, his ‘All Hell Let Loose’ (2011) is still the best one-volume history of WW2 in English.
o tempora, o mores – Oh The Times, oh The Daily Mirror…