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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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'savaged by a dead sheep'
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A phrase which caught the public's fancy after the chancellor of the exchequer, Denis Healey, had been attacked in 1978 in a speech by Geoffrey Howe; he described the experience as 'rather like being savaged by a dead sheep'.
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