knock-him-down-and-rob

Updated: June 23, 2025

I can't help thinking that all that talk I heard in Berlin, all that restlessness and desire to hit out at somebody, anybody, the knock-him-down-and-rob him idea they seemed obsessed with, was simply because it was drawing near the holiday time of year, and every one was overworked and nervy after a year's being cooped up in offices; and then the great heat came and finished them.

Alice Cholmondeley - Christine