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- noun idiomatic a
strategy of theLabour Party in winning overimportant people in the world offinance
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Compare charm offensive. Prawn cocktail implies taking people out for lunch.
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vanishedone commented on the word prawn cocktail offensive
Michael Crick: '"Never has so much ermine been wasted. Never have so many stoats died in vain. Never mind jobs for the boys - under this prime minister it's stoats for the goats".
'It was a variation on a wonderful 17-year old joke by Michael Heseltine from back before the 1992 election, when he taunted Labour leaders Neil Kinnock and John Smith for trying to woo the financial community with a series of lunches and dinners in the City of London - what became known as the prawn cocktail offensive.'
November 20, 2009