bright drab ("stylishly dressed in bright drab" H G Wells)
civil war
cold hot water bottle
contemporary antique brass ceiling light
fall at a high rate
fast idle
first Last Song (of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs)
flat point (lace)
fully vacantflats for sale
Go now, then.
great small cities
growing lack of (voters)
growing shortage
Guernsey jersey
guest host(on a chat show)
hair corsage (a corsage is something you wear on your lapel)
High colour depths can be obtained.
high depth It’s extremely unusual to have such a high depth of rainfall in such ashort duration. Guardian July 24, 2007
high levels of depression
human avian flu vaccine
human BSE
increasingly few “the works of the Franco-Romanian playwright ... get increasingly few outings thesedays ...” Evening Standard March 13, 2003
Indian Style Chinese Vegetable Fried Rice
It’ll be all round the square! (Albert Square)
known undiscovered oil reserves
last First Lady
last first night
many fewer Labour market inflexibility explains why the European economy has created so many fewer jobs than the US over the past three decades.
mini supermarket
Mostar’s new Old Bridge
My hair is growing back at the front.
negative growth
now then, now then
old New Economy, new New Economy
old New Scientist (that was in an...)
old New Year (like Old Christmas time before they changed the calendar)
old news
online newspaper
open secret
our current future status
penguin rookery
pink bluebell
pink goldfish
plain in an ornate kind of way: Fair Client. "I want it to be nice and baronial, Queen Anne and Elizabethan, and all that; kind of quaint and Nuremburgy you know—regular Old English, with French windows opening to the lawn, and Venetian blinds, and sort of Swiss balconies, and a loggia. But I'm sure you know what I mean!" (November 29, 1890). George du Maurier
plastic glass, a
plum cherry tomatoes
pretty ugly
pygmy mammoth
rain later, becoming lighter after dark
rapid slowdown
shallower depths
silk bed linen
silver white horse
Spanish Turkish bath
static mobile homes
straight round I'll come straight round
superette (a small supermarket)
That's your My Little Pony
Use pins to give yourself a temporary permanent (wave)
vacant possession
water windmill
white pinks
Who runs the walks? (Hackney Council)
You can download updates.
BUT WHAT DO YOU CALL THESE...?
anorak anorak (someone who obsessively collects and taxonomises anoraks)
avian bird flu
bogus false teeth
first First Lady
folk theory of mind “It is referred to as the theory theory” wiki
Oxymorons
