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definition
when a man is tired of Bracknell… expression or saying
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When a man is tired of Bracknell he has been there 20 mins
Origin
From a BBC Radio 4 comedy, possibly Concrete Cow. A riff on Samuel Johnson’s “when a man is tired of London he is tired of life”
Collector
Riverbankers – 2000s
Mark, Naomi, Joy & Felix
Notes
Until the 1960s, and long after it lent its name to an Oscar Wilde character, Bracknell was a market village in Windsor Great Forest. It is now a town of 85,000 so dreary it was used as the location for the Dursleys’ home in the first Harry Potter film
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