The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154361   Message #3803826
Posted By: Senoufou
06-Aug-16 - 04:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: Can we have a Permanent abuse thread
Subject: RE: BS: Can we have a Permanent abuse thread
My snobby sister reads the Times newspaper (God!) but just occasionally she sends me some funny stuff. They had a list of expressions of foreign origin with definitions. Here are a couple:-

inuendo - an Italian suppository

magnum opus - a large Irish cat