"Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all" nghĩa là gì?

"Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all" = chú Tom Cobleigh và tất cả (ám chỉ đến một bài hát dân gian có tên "Widecombe Fair", đoạn điệp khúc liệt kê một số lượng lớn người được kết thúc bằng câu "Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all" -> nghĩa là và một số lượng lớn những người khác, được dùng để chỉ ra rằng danh sách những người dài một cách khó chịu.

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By the Turks, the British and Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all. it is an absolute disgrace which will eventually drive Greece into Putin's arms.

The flag debate, the flag debate! Every now and then someone gets it into their head to debate the New Zealand flag and whether or not it should be changed. The usual suspects emerge, the imperialists (chủ nghĩa đế quốc), the radicals (quan điểm cực đoan, cấp tiến), the politicos (con buôn chính trị) and uncle Tom Cobleigh and all. There is very little consensus (nền chính trị nhất trí) as to what the New Zealand flag should be if it were to be changed.

Other questions. Who’s Balaclava Man? More to the point, who isn’t? His identity was mostly a red herring: who instructed him, or them, turned out to be key. One of the links in the chain was ACC Derek Hilton - the real H? Paul Higgins (pictured below) skilfully suggested a weaselly, over-promoted corporate box-ticker whose conduct under pressure grew ever more shrill and erratic. One day, we may eventually find out who was controlling Dot Cottan, Tommy Hunter, Jimmy Lakewell, Derek Hilton, Lindsay Denton, old uncle Tom Cobleigh and all, and who keeps trying to bump off suspects and witnesses in transit (see also series two). "This is beginning to feel like a life’s work," said Hastings at the end. Good news for the viewer.

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