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Or - Gimme Back My Goddamn Lighter, You Commie Bastard!

'Chiefly British'

(Definition also new to me.)

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Angleterra firma, n. Blighty (cf. no place like home)

Big up the British

Satire is what we, the British, have always done better than anybody. From Chaucer, Swift and Alexander Pope to Chris Morris (The Day Today, Brass Eye, Four Lions), savage and comic lampoons of the age’s ignorance, delusions and cruelties have been as much a part of what this nation is as poetry, cathedrals and binge drinking.

- Bryan Appleyard, 'On Satire'