Margaret could be said to have a catchphrase - typically a long, exasperated use of the word "God", usually when making a realization about the reasons behind one of Victor's mishaps (which are occasionally inadvertently aided in some way by herself, such as leaving the phone off the hook or giving permission to someone to enter the Meldrew's house when she isn't there).
For much of the song, her singing telegraphs as eye-rolling, exasperated boredom, even when the words are sour: "You say you don't wanna hear me complain/Just trying to get my point across/You don't seem to care if I'm feeling lost".
For decades the answer to that question has been the Bigfoot of word origins, chased around wild speculative corners by amateur word freaks, with exasperated lexicographers and debunkers of folk etymologies in hot pursuit.
In a nice running gag, Waller-Bridge keeps her cafe afloat largely by charging her sporadic customers such arbitrarily vast sums of money for their sandwiches that all they can do is tut the word "London" in exasperated resignation.
God!" he says, stretching out that last word, both amused and exasperated.
She said, sounding pretty exasperated, "I'll ask him, 'Does that word make any sense at all?'".
Despite his words, he sounded a little exasperated.
"All of these words today are new," said an exasperated Peake during one particularly gruelling life-or-death Russian lesson.
But "typical queer writer/director" Joshua Conkel (his words, not mine) is even more exasperated: "Is it just me or do all of these options just seem so milquetoast?" he asks.
Although he claims never to talk about his past, his long-winded anecdotes about his wartime experiences with the Royal Navy became one of the show's running gags, usually begun with the words "During the war... ...... which resulted in exasperated groans from anyone nearby.
