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Clare's hung out to dry

Not counting chickens before the barn door has bolted.

Clare's hung out to dry

Our Mixed Metaphor Combining a Marvellous Pun of the Week Award goes to Cllr Clare Whelan, from the Local Government Association's environment and housing board, whose comments on Britain's flood insurance crisis lit up the sky with linguistic prowess and plumbed the depths of human logic – all at the same time.

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