ON SATURDAY, George Osborne, the chancellor, enjoyed a bit of a coup.
"This is a bit of a coup for Fendi," contines Lazarus.
"I beat out everybody, so for a stringer, that was a bit of a coup," he said.
This year, though, Konami has scored a bit of a coup by landing the official license for the 2016 European Championships.
To poach him would be a bit of a coup for the Somerset-based brand – in the doldrums since creative director Emma Hill left in 2013.
For Warren, this is a bit of a coup, since he seems to aspire to be the country's unofficial national pastor, a role once occupied by Billy Graham.
And Fox scored a bit of a coup by snaring the first television interview of the night with Pat Robertson, the religious broadcaster who came under attack from Mr. McCain in a speech delivered in the preacher's hometown.
And earlier this year, Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco cut short a trip to China, after a city supervisor Mr. Brown had appointed acting mayor staged a bit of a coup by filling two vacancies on a powerful city board.
We always want to know more about Orwell — he's one of those writers whose work is judged by his life — and John Carey, the literary critic and emeritus Oxford professor, has a bit of a coup: an interview with Orwell's adopted son, Richard Blair.
