That nice Tristram Hunt, the meteorologist’s son turned MP, was on Newsnight Review and used the word mitigate.
That nice Tristram Hunt, the meteorologist’s son turned MP, was on Newsnight Review and used the word mitigate. ‘You mean militate,’ cut in Germaine Greer. And he did.
We all commit malapropisms.
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