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(August 2003)

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DJ
DJGM
Corin posted:

Would not a cheaper alternative be, to make Rupert Murdoch
director general of the BBC?

It would be a nice going away present from Tony.


Going away present? Surely you mean leaving present . . . ?!?
CO
Corin
That rendering may indeed be a more acceptable form.

But when one departs for an institution (penal or psychiatric) or for taking up a retirement residence in exile in Toscagne or Texas, then is not a "going away present" appropriate?

Here are some sites which use that terminology :

<http://www.geocities.COM/SoHo/Hall/7744/1ga_prsnt.html>

<http://www.poetrygift.COM/presents.html>

<http://www.jsonline.COM/golfplus/jul01/britnot21072001.asp>

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