Meanings of british phlegm in English

Chambers and Mitchell, on the other hand, behaved with traditional British phlegm.

She is vivacious at all costs, and would rather suggest hysteria than British phlegm.

They did not kiss him; British phlegm, so far, had stayed that demonstration at the southern border.

Promptly his British phlegm throttled the demonstration.

Even the stolid British phlegm had vanished.

Even British phlegm yielded to exhilaration.

Underneath his British phlegm I could see that he was as keen on the thing as Jack Sedgwick.

This first series, about good old British phlegm from first to last, is the service's crowning achievement so far.

British phlegm this is called.

But they endured the discomfort with true British phlegm, talking little, and scarcely able to catch a glimpse of each other.

They took it all as a part of the day's work, with that singular, redoubtable combination of British phlegm and cheerfulness.

People seemed to think they were watching a display of magnificent British phlegm in adversity, though it was probably a display of bureaucratic inflexibility.

"I mean," he corrected with truly British phlegm, "that I can't say positively your story is untrue.

Nobody advised him; so with singularly British phlegm and not more than ordinary common sense he devised a method of his own for scotching night-prowlers.