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city of screaming tyres noun

Oxford

Origin

Attributed to an unnamed “one wit”¹, it’s a play on Matthew Arnold’s 1866 epithet “City of dreaming spires”.

Collector

Mum – 1990s²
Pauline Iliff (Dixon) – mother of Mark, JM, G & Bel

Notes

¹…though one source attributes it to the journalist and green activist George Monbiot

²I’m fairly certain I heard it several decades earlier, but can’t track it down
—Mark

Submitted: 11/08/2024 by Mark ● Last updated: 21/10/2024 15:09 by Mark

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