Well, as far as McClellan goes, there's the Civil War general who sat in Washington with the largest part of the Army and did nothing with it, jumping at shadows of the frontal assault from Virginia that never came.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll