Potential eponyms

Summary – an evolving list, because sometimes there are not enough words

  1. A lawrencefox – any man who uses the occasion of a toxic divorce to show the whole world how lucky his ex-wife was to flee. Usage: “Afterwards Anne reflected that she had a narrow escape from Henry, who, it turned out, was something of a pox-ridden laurencefox.”
  2. A mcgregor – an idiom similar to a “paper tiger”, derived from the idea of a braggadocio individual who finds it more difficult to fight trained men than to rape the defenceless. Usage: “Contemplating the impasse at the Strait of Hormuz, Netanyahu realised that Israel was now exposed as a mcgregor amongst the nations of the world.”
  3. Musky – a quality that means, no matter how much money, a person will always be too weird and repulsive. Usage: “After everything about him came out in public, Jeffrey was just too musky even for the DUP.”

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