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This is Deep State Radio.

Coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of

Snark in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio. I am David Rothkoff. I am coming to you today from New York City. In London, England,

we have Corey Schake, and in our studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark, we have the Financial Times Ed Luce and Roseabrooks of Georgetown

University. Our last episode ended up with a lively discussion, as those things are, of Britishisms.

And Rosa, you seemed like you had one that you wanted to share with everybody.

I do. I have one that confuses me a little bit and for years I have

wondered about this the phrase I was a bit chuffed because it seems to me that it's used in two opposite ways.

Sometimes it's used to imply, you know, rather please,

and other times it's used to imply rather put out.

So am I wrong about that, Ed?

And can you please explain the phrase a bit chuffed about that?

If you're chuffed, I always take it to mean you're happy, you're quite pleased.

I never take it to mean the opposite.

It's not an ambivalent.

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