a footstooled barber's chair

If you take any two Manchester manufacturers, or two Birmingham manufacturers, you will find that there is that jealousy between them that if one knew that another had looked at the thing and paid no attention to it, in all probability he would not be induced to look at it.

He's the coxiest young blackguard in the house—I always told you so.

In a much-anticipated radio broadcast the Duke of Edinburgh said last night that Britain will be a grim place in the year 2000 ….