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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

A COLUMNIST in The Financial Times complains that idiomatic English has failed to develop. Instead of "it never rains but it pours" to mean all or nothing at all, he offers the up-to-date alternative: "It comes in buses."

Others are even better. For instance, "to raise the Titanic" could mean to pour good money after bad. "Taking the Consett road" is a colourful idiom for unemployment and "paying a Lambeth rate" is descriptive of the verge of bankruptcy.