Lord Muck


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Lord Muck

n
informal an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic. See also Lady Muck
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I was rather reluctant to swap over to take my turn as Lord Muck, enclosed in furs to be transported back to base.
"John Gilligan visits the house a lot and people in the street don't like his attitude because he behaved like Lord Muck. He was full of his own importance."
Even more irritating is that Will.I.Am could fly in like Lord Muck, help spoil the UK's most popular TV show and then fly straight back out again.
And he's either very brave or incredibly stupid (I think I know where the money's going on that one!) , because he struts around the area like Lord Muck, despite the very obvious dangers of farm traffic, the local cats and the large amounts of blokes with guns who patrol the woods and fields on Sundays.
But he was just a fixer, not to be blamed for what went first, him being only the cover-up man, the preserver of the King's peace, a minor Lord Muck in the area, and God forgive him for all that he'd done, but his was not the leading role.
"They just chucked him up on to the back of this huge horse and he sat there like Lord Muck and then did his stuff," said mum Helen proudly.