Drift ~~ Induced by the thread title, which I thought might have some allusion to what that phrase actually means ---

Hope I shall not be denounced to the PC Police for recalling its use in a Cambridge Footlights Revue I reviewed once in the late 1960s when the late Jonathan James-Moore was a student. He did a number about   nostalgia for the Great Days Of Empah in which a red-coated officer carolled ~~

"Nail your colours to the mast
The wogs have pinched the string!"

~M~