He made him a life peer in 1998 along with a whole load of other buddies once he'd shipped out some of the old duffers with legislative reform. |
These aristocratic or tuft-hunting philanthropists were the veriest duffers. |
Don't you think something should be done about it, or at least tell the old duffers to stop making fools of themselves? |
The unsuccessful diggers would declare their holes blanks, duffers, or shicers, and dedicate them to the Queen. |
In the first place, mirabile dictu, there were one or two even greater duffers than I on the Abbey cricket-field. |
We're just a friendly bunch of old duffers who like getting together every now and then, and having a laugh. |