tea cosy

Aviation is also under pressure to build greener planes and stop adding to what Johnson called the "carbon tea cosy" heating the planet.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the world to cooperate to tackle the “toxic tea cosy” of greenhouse gases now quilting the planet, while investors and businesses underscored their support for action.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the world to cooperate to reverse the process by which humanity has been quilting the planet in “a toxic tea cosy” of greenhouse gases.

The Vogue interview describes Dench as “a kind of cultural tea cosy to be popped soothingly over the nation’s beleaguered identity in times of crisis.”

Undergraduates were encouraged to smoke but told not to use tea cosies in a Victorian guide to student life.