John Chappell suggests (scroll quickly past the bizarre homophobic rant) that “pull a Spain” (“hacer una españolada“) is becoming the new “pull a Chamberlain”, an expression for poorly reasoned cowardice. That’s clearly true for Americans in pyjamas, but doesn’t yet apply to British+ anklebiters. Here are the official results (in ghits) from the gorpus:
| a Zapatero | a Chamberlain | a Spain | |
pull ( ) | 15 | 8 | 378 |
do ( ) | 11 | 21 | 53 |
I think that you probably already have a rough idea of what you will find if you Google “do a Bush”.
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