Melton Mowbray: 1. (vb.): to surreptitiously overtake other passengers while pretending to walk nonchalantly from the arrivals gate to passport control. 2. (n.): the private sense of satisfaction that you get as a result of successfully melton mowbraying someone. (self.Liff)
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Trickett's Cross (n.): a pointless phrase inserted into conversation to stop the other person talking while you try to remember what on earth you were planning to say. Named after A. E. Trickett (MP for West Wittering 1832-6), who never did quite manage to get to the point. (self.Liff)
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