Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells

Meaning: (UK,idiomatic)A stereotypicalvocalconservativecurmudgeon.1979, Adrian Hope, “Kept Incommunicado”, inNew Scientist, page1048:The Post Office bitterly resents the criticism that is constantly voiced in the British press, both by "Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells" and journalists.2000,British Journal of Photography:It was refreshing that what raised the hackles ofDisgusted of Tunbridge Wellshad nothing to do with a colourful range of jumpers, nor a flighty Italian art director/photographer.2003, Colin Leys,Market-driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest, Verso,→ISBN, page216:Of course 'Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells'was never a Labour voter.2007, Jeremy Paxman,The Political Animal, Penguin UK,→ISBN:The Sussex Weald is all small towns and villages, 99 per cent white, gravel-drived, car-owning, the sort of placeDisgusted of Tunbridge Wellswould move to if he found Tunbridge Wells a bit too bustling.2011, Justin Webb,Notes on Them and Us: From the Mayflower to Obama – the British, the Americans and the special essential relationship., Short Books,→ISBN:The inanity of the British attack is obvious from some of the words the earlyDisgusteds of Tunbridge Wellscomplained about.

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