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  • adjective Precisely accurate; exactly appropriate or fitting.
  • preposition idiomatic, UK Exactly at
  • verb idiomatic, UK To constantly talk about

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  • "Someone I know who hangs out with the very rich tells me that in the banker belt of the lower Thames valley there are people who heat their outdoor swimming pools to bath temperature, all round the year. They like to lie in the pool on winter nights, looking up at the stars. The fuel costs them £3000 a month. One hundred thousand people living like these bankers would knacker our life support systems faster than 10 billion people living like the African peasantry. But at least the super wealthy have the good manners not to breed very much, so the rich old men who bang on about human reproduction leave them alone."

    - George Monbiot, The Population Myth, monbiot.com, 29 Sep 2009.

    October 12, 2009