InDefinition - 80

adjutantrum, n, when a not-particularly-high-ranking officer spazzes out at those beneath her, in the interests of her own career advancement.

Winter Sunday

[with thanks to winter_sunday]

Shame!

Luke looked across at a young man busy writing in a notebook and felt sorry for him: he had only his book for company - even his coffee-cup was empty.

- Dyer, Paris Trance

So this is why we pay Erica Wagner...

Poetry isn't found only between the covers of books, however wonderful those books may be. The poets make it from the stuff they find all around them - cups of coffee included.

- Erica Wagner, The Times

Duh.

Overheard in a coffee shop

They got pregnant - not 'accidentally', but... unexpectedly.

- anon.