Sunday, September 05, 2010

Thirty years of what, sir?

A farmer on Dalziel & Pascoe excuses his deliberately infecting his sheep with foot and mouth (to get the government money) by saying:
It took me thirty years to build this place, thirty years of graft.
I do know that "graft" means "hard work", but I never encounter that meaning except in British books and film, so I always first think of "corruption". Which makes that statement really, really funny.

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