Yes, Yes, I know I’m a little late to this story. So an ex-National Security Advisor has been caught removing both notes and classified documents from the National Archives. Bad, yes, naughty boy, yes, should be investigated, yes, without partisan fervour or or glee (who am I kidding?).
One of those niggly little differences between English and American makes it worse for me. It is widely reported that he took some of those docs out by stuffing them down his pants. I was glad to see that in American this means trousers as opposed to our meaning, which is cognate with the American underpants.
The thought of a nervous 300 lb man hurriedly stuffing intelligence briefings into his briefs is just so, well, y’know, grody, sweaty even.