* In the decades since Partridge and Gowers wrote disparagingly of the cliché to all intents and purposes, it has given rise to a corrupted version of itself, ‘to all intensive purposes’. This is no improvement on the original. ~
* Gowers confidently gave as examples explore every avenue and leave no stone unturned, but decades later both soldier on, yet to hit the buffers. ~
* The Deputy Prime Minister not so long ago roundly declared, ‘We will not balance the books on the backs of the poor’. ~