What they just love is a good round catchword; they've only got to hear themselves say it often enough, and they'll take it for gospel.

They're convinced out of their own mouths.
There was the driver of a bus I used to ride on pretty often, and if he felt like talking, he'd always begin, 'As I was a-saying of yesterday--' Well, that's the general idea--to repeat what they were a-sayin' of yesterday; and it doesn't matter two cents that the rest of the world has changed the subject.

They've been a-sayin' a long time that they object to import duties of any sort or kind, and you won't get them to SEE the business in changing.

If they do this it won't be because they want to, it will be because Wallingham wants them to." "I guess that's so," said Williams.

"And if Wallingham gets them to he ought to have a statue in every capital in the Empire.