Monday 12 September 2011

You have to be a mutton chop, not an earl

[A] Senior conservative, when at lunch, has little leisure for observing anything not immediately on the table in front of him. To attract attention in the dining-room of the Senior Conservative club between the hours of one and two-thirty, you have to be a mutton chop, not an earl.

P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (1915), 38

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