The Tweaker » UK politics https://www.tweaker.se Our weekly look at the world Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:46:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Are there no fuddy-duddies in Sweden? https://www.tweaker.se/uncategorized/are-there-no-fuddy-duddies-in-sweden/ https://www.tweaker.se/uncategorized/are-there-no-fuddy-duddies-in-sweden/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:56:52 +0000 http://www.tweaker.se/?p=111 A fuddy duddy is a rather prim, pedantic, stick-in-the-mud, humourless fogey. It’s used very aptly to describe Nigel Farage, the frighteningly successful leader of UKIP,  in this rather entertaining article from The Independent about his sartorial style.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/nigel-farage-undressed-the-ukip-leaders-fuddyduddy-look-is-a-calculated-harkingback-to-postwar-patriotism-9789291.html

It’s the sort of expression that is very difficult to translate. Maybe there are no fuddy duddies in Sweden? Swedish “slipper heroes” (toffel hjältar) certainly have various qualities in common with them.

 

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