The Independent - London, June 29th, 2001
GRAMMARIANS MAY be more interested in this than philologists but (Wake up! You can't read and sleep! You're not resting your eyes!) two new locutions surfaced in parliament this week. Tony Blair said to Jacqui Lait: "I say to you and through you..."
Exactly what was said through the defenceless creature needn't detain us. It certainly didn't detain Tony Blair. But to speak through someone seemed a very parliamentary thing to do. Mysterious. Masterful. Slightly cruel. Mr Blair was using Mrs Lait as his megaphone without co-operating her first.
That's the second new usage. It's very contempora...
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