In " The Guardian " " Notes from the touchline " sport report, 21 March 2003, journalist Frank Keating used the headline " World Cup shines with dinkum Brummagem " to praise the performance of Birmingham-born Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds.
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For all its strangeness, the London Tussaud's has acquired a certain brummagem elegance because of its relationship with the celebrities who pose for portraits, including the Royals ( every reigning British monarch back to George III has sat for a museum sculptor ).
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The poorer-quality " Brummagem ware " was beginning to give the better more skilled metal workers of the town a bad name, Matthew Boulton of the Lunar Society and several toy makers and silversmiths realized this and campaigned to have the town's first assay office constructed.
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For instance, despite the city's cultural and innovative history, its industrial background ( as depicted by the Birmingham's coat of arms ) has led to a muscular and unintelligent stereotype : a " Brummagem screwdriver " or " Brummie screwdriver " is UK slang for a hammer.
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"The Birmingham School of Business School ", a song by The Fall on the 1992 album " Code : Selfish ", about the " creative accounting techniques " of Trevor Long, a manager of the band, includes the lyric " Brummagem School of Business School ".
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There were many contradictory comments and accounts to the idea that Birmingham or Brummagem was associated with poor-quality manufacture around the 19th century, Robert Southey once wrote in 1807 : " Probably in no other age or country was there ever such an astonishing display of human ingenuity as may be found in Birmingham ."
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The neighbouring City of Birmingham may be called " Brum-a-jum " ( Birmingham's colloquial name is Brummagem, a corruption of its older name of Bromwichamand hence West Bromwich ) or Birminam ( missing the " g " and " h " out and saying it the way it is spelt ).
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Carts were passing to and fro; groups of Indians squatting on their haunches were chattering together, and displaying to one another the flaring red and yellow handkerchiefs, the scarlet blankets, and muskets of the most worthless Brummagem make, for which they had been exchanging their bits of gold, while their squaws looked on with the most perfect indifference.
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It was used figuratively in this context to refer to moral fakery : for instance, the " Times " leader, 29 January 1838, reported Sir Robert Peel's slur on an opponent : " [ who ] knew the sort of Brummagem stuff he had to deal with, treated the pledge and him who made it with utter indifference ".
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In the Henry James story " The Lesson of the Master " ( 1888 ), the novelist Henry St . George refers to his " beautiful fortunate home " as " brummagem " to indicate that it is worth little in comparison to what he has given up to have it; he has sacrificed his pursuit of great writing in order to live the life of a comfortable, well-off man.
