Tag: Liz Truss

‘to pull out all the stops’: meaning and origin

.Reading time 11 minutes.

to do everything possible to achieve a result or effect—UK, 1865 (as ‘to pull out a few more stops’)—alludes to pulling out all the stops of an organ in order to produce a full and thrilling sound

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‘Iron Weathercock’ (as applied to Liz Truss)

.Reading time 4 minutes.

UK, 2022— translates French ‘girouette de fer’—a derisive nickname for Liz Truss, in reference both to ‘Iron Lady’ (a nickname for Margaret Thatcher) and to Liz Truss’s changing views on a variety of subjects

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