Now, of course, language must import or die, but the trading does seem to have become rather one-way of late. Spin doctor, a phrase which has overtones of baseball, is also American, and only came into common usage here in the mid-1980s, after the dream ticket took over the Labour party. And dark horse came from Disraeli's novel The Young Duke. But he actually meant it originally in a horse-racing context rather than a political one. Now, however, the exports seemed to have dried up while America's ugliest words infest our media.
Every burglary is a heist.
These are words that would never ever be spoken in any British conversation, which is what makes their use so ludicrous. I can't stand this kind of thing. Thanks for all your entries to our Easter Tuesday quiz. I thought it was pretty easy myself, but then I knew all along that Fact No. 9 was the rogue. The Arami tribe of Ghana is a figment, and the stuff about them being poisoned by the potassium in bananas utter nonsense.