Susie Dent

Freemasons, as you would expect, had quite a few.

Birders had loads.

Paramedics, I mean, we all have them, only we're not tuning into other people's because we're so busy lobbying our own at others.

I mean, cyclists.

Honestly, it would be very hard to say who had the most, but it might well be butchers in terms of sort of keeping it going as a deliberate sort of tribal thing where you exclude others.

Yes, exactly.

Lots of euphemisms.

And they also, a group of paramedics told me, which you will have heard, but whenever they were being told off by their bosses, they would just say, oh, there we are then.

And there we are then is an acronym for exactly what they thought of the person telling them.

But it's interesting you're talking about Todd being a socialite because so was Gordon Bennett, who was the son of a newspaper magnate.

And he was a huge socialite.

And that was why his name really stuck in the imagination.

Yeah.

And plus it's a handy sidestep for, you know, gore blimey.

There was a Jack the Lad.

There was a smart Alec.

We think that there was a Mickey Bliss who gave us Taking the Mickey.

Taking the Mickey Bliss piss.

Bob's your uncle?

Bob's your uncle was Robert Balfour, who gave his nephew a job in government, even though he wasn't remotely suited for it.