May I have a word about... delightful phrases on the at-risk list | Vanessa Thorpe
(World News UK)

The common misuse of language make a vast difference to its meaning A dowager type, a minor character in a whimsical British film made before the Second World War ( Once In A New Moon , since you ask), is quite emphatic about the perils of generosity to the lower classes: `Give them an inch and they...