Meanings
- UKderogatoryinformalThe Telegraph newspaper.
I thought, I'm not going to do my spring boxes and give a picture to the bloody Torygraph.
1993, David Hare, Lyn Haill, Asking around, page 1691 more example
My parents have both gone: my father in 2021, my mother two years later. Even lovely Jane, gone. Makes me sorrowful. Jane and I got along like a pair of naughty kids with stink bombs at a jumble sale. Madam loved her too. She stayed with us in the castle we were renting in 2007; if only you could have heard her and my Commander (both Torygraph readers) setting the world to rights.
2025 December 28, Kevin Bowyer, “Prière: ‘Prélude 25’ from 25 Préludes dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs, Op. 31 Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–88)”, Well-Thumbed, in Organists' Review, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 106
Origin
Blend of Tory + telegraph, from the newspaper's political leanings; popularised by Private Eye magazine.
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