Philpotts

I tell him I went to get Frank but Frank's not there so Philpotts says, "Well where is Frank then?" and Isay, "How am I s'posed to know?" and Philpotts says, "Someone has an attitude problem here, Pearl" and it's just as well that Yusuf rolls up with a mop and a bucket of soapy water and a CAUTION SLIPPERY FLOOR sign.

David Mitchell Muggins Here 2010

Back on the floor I'm ambushed by Philpotts who asks me why I'm fannying around when Jamie Oliver's sauces're bleeding their guts out?

David Mitchell Muggins Here 2010

"Greenland won't accept liability," Philpotts warns me.

David Mitchell Muggins Here 2010

Philpotts walks towards us with Brian the security guard.

David Mitchell Muggins Here 2010

Philpotts can't get close enough to fire off a "What are half your team doing without their name-badges, Pearl?" but Ineed the loo? no chance, not 'til all the breaks are over.

David Mitchell Muggins Here 2010

The buzzer goes at the customer information, and Philpotts says, "You'd better scuttle along before you say another word."

David Mitchell Muggins Here 2010

If I hurry, I'll make it back just before Philpotts 'deadline: two minutes to climb the steps, and one to cross the car park.

David Mitchell Muggins Here 2010

With the British era and the settlement of Upper Canada, the importance of water navigation rapidly increased and in 1839, Lieutenant-Colonel George Philpotts of the Royal Engineers, acting under the instructions of Lord Durham, submitted two reports recommending the enlargement of all canals between Lake Erie and tidewater and proposing a standard size lock two hundred feet in length, fifty-five feet in width and having nine feet of water on the sills.

A Troubled Artery 1966

'Comrades Asher, Waterman, Philpotts, and others have been taken unawares.

The Prince and Betty 1928

It was in the interval between leaving school and going to Chewton to the Philpotts that I began to read poetry for myself.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922