Sentence examples similar to friendly bombing from inspiring English sources

All I can say is: come friendly bombs and fall on our native film industry now.

"To misquote Betjeman: 'Come friendly bombs drop on Slough.' The point is an obvious one".

The poet laureate Sir John Betjeman famously condemned Slough to more than 70 years of opprobrium when he exhorted "friendly bombs" to fall on the Berkshire town.

They do have the self-awareness to quote Betjeman's "Slough" on "High Street Low Lives", but if these jokers succeed, those friendly bombs came too late.

"If that be the case, and I don't mean to be flippant, John Betjeman would be concerned when he said 'Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough'".

Kate Mead, freelance journalist and lifelong Bromley resident Places they loved to hate Slough, John Betjeman "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!

More famous, of course, are the words: "Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough / It isn't fit for humans now".

LiveScience reported the news under a headline that combined the allure of saving the earth with the promise for destroying it little by little: Environmentally Friendly Bombs Planned.

Writing in 1937, the future poet laureate John Betjeman assailed Slough with lines that achieved immortality: Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!

"Come friendly bombs and fall on Upton-cum-Chalvey; It's a slough of despond and crawling with larvae" is the best I can do before Christmas.

Shot as a mock documentary, it examined the daily nonevents at a branch of Wernham Hogg, a fictional paper-supply company in Slough, the city west of London celebrated by John Betjeman: "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!