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But all the same he was "a very entertaining old buffer."
Management is what they're good at: the old buffers are scholars.
I've turned into the most awful old buffer, I'm afraid.
Medical incompetence apart, he was really a pretty decent old buffer.
Oh, they all used to try to snub me, these old buffers.
"What a fuss old buffers make," thought Ronnie to himself.
He was always a pretty good old buffer.
So you'd throw away £30-odd-billion just to spite some old buffer.
It must be a long time since anyone - except the most die-hard old buffer - can have thought them outrageous.
"Because, mind you, he is the kind of old buffer that hates newspaper men like poison.
It reads rather quickly for old buffers like me; and nobody ever seems to finish a sentence.
I didn't know the man who stepped out and looked straight at the door which the old buffer porter had managed to close.
So hard for the old buffers to get into this internets thing isn't it.
Of course it was partly because an old buffer like me enjoys feeling that he is still not quite out of things.
We have lost couriers," the old buffer had said, in tones of horror.
I wound up in the subcommittee to determine a testimonial gift for the old buffer.
For what else could so many well-connected old buffers do if not manoeuvre themselves into and around the Senate?
Does that make me an old buffer?
He seems to be an understanding old buffer.'
It's got nothing to do with national security; it's that they may embarrass some dear old buffer who did a lot of damage.
'I don't know why you should have led me to believe he was some kind of old buffer.'
"I can just picture the old buffer.
I'm not an old buffer, myself- but I prefer Kingsley for his sense of humour.
I can't expect two youngsters like you to find it much fun talking to an old buffer like me."
'He may be an old buffer, but he's a nice one.'