1. The beggarly wages for workers, previously considered a social problem, now were called a competitive advantage.

2. Thackeray‘s Miss Tickletoby, who gave lectures on English history in his lampoon on such events, told her audience: "The Battle of Hastings occurred – let me see, take 1066 from 1842 – exactly 776 years ago; yet I can‘t help feeling angry that those beggarly, murderous Frenchmen should have beaten our honest English as they did." This inspired cries from her audience: "Never mind, we‘ve given it ‘em since." Anyhow, the American humorist Ogden Nash observed in 1'36: "I think the English people are sweet/And we might as well get used to them because when they slip and fall they always land on their own or somebody else‘s feet." We know that we usually won, anyway, which was the important bit.