On "Straight Outta Ca$hville," he spits out tough, slanted phrases, full of sharp syncopation, with distended vowels that come courtesy of his hometown: "Ca$hville," Tenn.
His persona on the show is Rees at his most animated, and the episode descriptions are full of tough talk: phrases like "open a door with total confidence" and "become a master fly assassin" and "throw a paper airplane perfectly, so that everyone in its presence will simply stop and stare in awe".
The phrase "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime", so brilliantly popularised by Mr Blair, was actually coined by Mr Brown.
It was not merely that he invented the phrase "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" that did so much, in the wake of the James Bulger murder, to establish Tony Blair, his friend and shadow Home Secretary, as a future party leader.
But since all risk is terrifying, and even one preventable death is too many, there are not many intact fingernails left around this place.Luckily the British government is getting tough, as the phrase goes, on the sellers of the perilous stuff.
Similar arguments lurk in "Building Character", a 2009 think-tank report which after surveying mountains of data declared that the gulf between the respective life chances of a poor child and a rich child all but vanishes when both are raised by "confident and able" parents, offering "tough love" (that phrase again).
Trump, it emerges, is a fan of the word "sleaze," and of the phrase "tough cookie," which he has used to describe policemen, his opponents' political donors, Paul LePage, "real-estate guys in New York and elsewhere," an unnamed friend who is a "great financial guy," ISIS, three professional football players, Reince Priebus, Lyndon Johnson, and Trump's father, Fred.
When colleagues and acquaintances describe Karen P. Hughes, named today to be White House counselor for President-elect George W. Bush, they use the same words and phrases: tough, no-nonsense, formidable, loyal and utterly devoted.
Getting past ALL AT SEA at 26 Across was tough, first because that phrase didn't immediately come to mind as an answer to the clue "Totally confused," and second because I had made a numbering mistake just before that.
Anyway, in layman's terms, Charlie's diagnosis arises from the fact that after enduring 18 years of milquetoast humiliation at the hands of his first wife, his neighbors and the good people of southern Rhode Island, he suddenly turns into Hank, a lustful sociopath who expresses himself in skewed tough-guy catch phrases.
