Martin Pool's blog

Abuse of "literally"

Robert Fulford:

Writing in the Toronto Sun last week, Douglas Fisher said that the prime minister, when pushing through the bill to compensate some but not all of those infected with hepatitis by tainted blood, "literally laid on his whip."

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