Private Eye Usage
The British satirical magazine Private Eye nicknames journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil 'Brillo' in reference to the appearance of his hair.
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Famous quotes containing the words private, eye and/or usage:
“To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)
“Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more,
“He was one who had an eye for such mysteries”?”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“I am using it [the word ‘perceive’] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that it exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word.”
—A.J. (Alfred Jules)