When the first torrent of tenderness was over, and when, in the calm and long interval between the fits, reason began to open the eyes of the lady, and she saw this alteration of behaviour in the captain, who at length answered all her arguments only with
pish and pshaw, she was far from enduring the indignity with a tame submission.
Bird strode up and down the room, grumbling to himself, "
Pish! pshaw!
When his friends said, 'You fish!' he would answer, 'Oh,
pish! Fish can't swim like me , they've no vim in 'em.'
"
Pish, sirrahs, put a date always at the bottom of your letter, as well as the top, that I may know when you send it; your last is of November 3, yet I had others at the same time, written a fortnight after.
He
pish'd and psha'd in a fury--told me not to be such a fool as to pawn--and said he would see whether he could lend me the money.
"
Pish. None of the stories were good," said her husband peevishly.
Bishop Butler harkens back to an old Anglican tradition of
pished prelates.
If a flush MP would like to pop a gold-plated
PISH award on their credit card, I'll sort out the personalisation.
We'd like to reassure the couple that our
PISH award is not on the list of substances or articles that need to be declared when visiting a foreign nation.
"Don't give me your crap," says ginger beard effeminately, "and less of that Blunkett
pish. I know my rights and I have a very good lawyer."
THIS week's esteemed
PISH award (Philosophy Is Selfish Here) is being dispatched to Luvvie Land, for Kate "I'm Alright Jack" Winslet.
THIS week's esteemed
PISH award (PM In Swine Horror) is being dipped in disinfectant and sent to No10.
