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Re-rat
Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London © Sue Lowry & Magellan PR
May 24, 2017
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
Sir John Colville’s diary, The Fringes of Power, paraphrases this well-known phrase of Churchill’s, which may, in fact, be manufactured since no direct attribution can be found, but Richard M. cited in Langworth, editor of Churchill: In His Own Words, feels that ‘re-rat’ has been mentioned by too many sources to doubt that Churchill coined it.
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