Two favourite phrases
I’ve always liked Lucy Mangan’s writing, ever since… ooh, since she wrote enthusiastically about travelling by bus. In today’s new-look G2 (and how much nicer it looks, too) it seems she has a regular column. And it looks like I’m going to start a small collection of favourite Lucy Mangan phrases which I will, sadly, find it difficult to work casually into daily conversation.
Today’s favourite phrase is “the medium of shrugging”. As in
How had other people managed? Ron, via the medium of shrugging, gave me to understand that this would probably have to be set down as one of the imponderable mysteries of the ages.
Previously I held dear “a veritable Wall’s Viennetta of stupidity”, which is just too compelling an image to bury away.
