Ask a typical American what he thinks of goat and he'll imagine "a gnarly-looking old billy goat with long horns on top of a car chewing on an old tin can," says J.J.
Unfortunately, they neglected to inform May that the development they'd already embarked upon was utterly incompatible with the flexible framework he'd imagined.
Inside, needless to say, nobody will imagine that he or she has arrived at a summer-share bungalow, never mind the screen door.
She loves and admires him - all the more because he will not imagine abandoning "his good and blameless wife".
When George Osborne wrote his Budget speech, he will have imagined and pre-empted countless probing questions the Opposition would ask of his tax policies.
I'll make a comment, or I'll imagine sometimes he'll be asking me a question".
Whatever happens, he will, one would imagine, be forced to count the cost of his ascent to the top.
He, I imagine, will be taking the first flight to the Caribbean, double-fisting pina coladas and never looking back.
