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city of screaming tyres noun

Oxford

Origin

Attributed only to “one wit”², it’s a play on Matthew Arnold’s 1866 epithet “City of dreaming spires”.

Collector

Mum – 1990s¹
Pauline Iliff (Dixon) – mother of Mark, JM, G & Bel

Notes

¹I’m fairly certain I heard it several decades earlier, but can’t track it down
—Mark
²One source attributes it to the journalist and green activist George Monbiot

Submitted: 11/08/2024 by Mark

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