Citations:Brentrance

English citations of Brentrance

• 2016 June 24, Brett McGinness, “For the Record: Brits build big, beautiful floating wall”, in USA Today‎^[1]:

  We see you, UK. If you get lonely out there on your own, don't go thinking your "Brexit" gets to turn into a "Brentrance" to the United States. We already have an island part, and it has far less gloom and mildew than you do.

• 2016 June 27, Patrick McDonald, “Adelaide Symphony Orchestra plays on with pomp and proms, despite Brexit”, in The Advertiser‎^[2]:

  THE UK may have beat a hasty Brexit from the European Union but the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra still plans to make a grand “Brentrance” for this week’s traditional Last Night of the Proms concerts.

• 2019 March 31, Chris Hall, “From the archive: language learning as Britain joins the Common Market, 1973”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

  As Britain edged towards joining the Common Market in 1973 (Brentrance?), Marcelle Bernstein examined the rise in language learning among business people, students and potential tourists (‘Nation speaks unto nation, but in what language?’, 23 April 1972).

• 2019 June 1, Liam Mackey, “A Champions League final but not as we know it”, in Irish Examiner‎^[4]:

  The irony won’t be missed that, as our neighbours tear themselves apart over Brexit, England’s football teams have been engaged this season in something rather more akin to Brentrance, the continent falling at the feet of the Premier League and, signs on it, maybe not just as a once-off visitation.