charabanc

They have, after all, a notorious penchant for sea shanties and mariner epics, and Meloy populates his songs with Dickensian chimbley sweeps, wandering Civil War soldiers and oddball characters who use antiquated terms like “charabanc” and “bombazine” in everyday conversation.

Briefly entertaining the idea that, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang like, it might be to get the charabanc going again, I ask what it's for.

But let’s not punish Johnson for the mute words of a charabanc.

To shake up tired old politics is one thing; to allegedly inflict bruises on a reporter quite another – a distinction that seems to be getting lost on board the Trump charabanc.

One reason that the Trump charabanc now looks so chaotic was the departure in August of his top – and pretty much only – political adviser, Roger Stone.