A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

That whole campaign was a damp squib, they cranked it up as a real possibility that Scotland might win, and when we actually got there it didn't happen like that, and everybody came home quite early with their tails between their legs.

With all due respect, sir, Shibli said, your operation at Site Tango had all the finesse of a goat-fuck. …

Every institution, it seems, runs on ungrace and its insistence that we earn our way.