No.1 Son and I were having a discussion on the imminent elimination of Boris Johnson. He asked whether Rishi Sunak would win the race to replace him, to which I responded that Sunak had blotted his copybook.
I was horrified to discover that No.1 Son was totally ignorant of what that phrase meant. He pointed out that blotting was something that was done when people used fountain pens and he had no idea what a copybook was. For him - a 24 year-old - the phrase was from the deep recesses of history.
It makes one feel old when one has to explain phrases which were common currency not that long ago.
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