“You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
“You managed not to get eaten then?”
Said to a British student in Papua New Guinea, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes" BBC News (1 March 2002)
2000s
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