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  • Did you threaten to overrule him?

    - Anna Pavlova
      Question asked14 times of Conservative politician Michael Howard, relating to the sacking of a prison governor by the director of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis. On BBC's Newsnight.

  • Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here.

    -Tommy Trinder
    Of US troops stationed in Britain duringWorldWar II.This phrase is associated withTrinder, but was probably not his invention.

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