Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.