BBC NEWS | The Reporters | Robert Peston
Then there’s the plight of all those overseas businesses that manufacture cars in the UK. They’re being mullered by a massive contraction of available credit and a collapse in sales.
(My emphasis) The premier journalist for these days of collapsing economies, Robert Peston, uses a phrase I’ve only heard in pubs and student haunts, where it means “badly damaged or drunk.” What a strange word it is too and, of uncertain, recent derivation; how odd for a BBC journalist to be using what is still considered an outsider, slang word. The peeps [more...]
