a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title

Criticism is stereotyped as 'civil servant bashing' or the weapon of whataboutery is unsheathed: official statements accelerate about inefficient private sector management.

Though highbred and luxury-loving, as a young man he was not averse to hard political work, and many old-timers still remember the days when Bill Whitney delivered cart-tail harangues on the lower east side.

And a man mun keep watch at t mill toft / To stiddy his mouter-dish — help him to sift it, / And see it's o' tidily done; / And gedder up offal, and heàmmward to skift it, / And hev sooins as sure as a gun.