gommy

Updated: July 27, 2026

I tell you he ought to be 'ung. If you was to say to me to-morrow 'Will you 'ang old Gladstone? I'd 'andle the rope. He's a blank robber and a scoundrel, he is. "What's this new man, Lord Churchill, goin' to do? He's a red-hot 'un. He does slip into 'em, and no mistake. He's a coming man, I reckon. I never see such a flow of language as that bit where he called old Gommy a superannuated Pharisee.

James Runciman - The Chequers: Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in: a Loafer's Diary