Bobby laughed. 'She's away out for a meal with her pals. What are you lot up to the night, anyway?' 'Eh, getting rubbered, I suppose,' said Drew. 'Then hitting some disco,' added Gus.

You should talk to the manager about your postcareer planning.

Antibathing beliefs common in the eighteenth century—that bathing was dangerous, that dirt protected the skin and health of children—seem to have become completely outmoded among the middle and upper classes by the mid-nineteenth century, but are said by various writers to have persisted for a while among some working-class and rural people.

No end of a shemozzle there’s been there lately, he said. Marina Gregg's been having hysterics most days. Said some coffee she was given was poisoned.