Beano

You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.

For all she knew, Upjohn might have got the holiday spirit and be planning to remain burning up the boulevards indefinitely, and of course nothing gives a big beano a black eye more surely than the failure to show up of the principal speaker.

‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’

“Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.”