QUOT: (kwot) Noun and collective noun.

A commonplace occurrence – any feature or characteristic of ordinary life which is ever present or predictable in given circumstances – a generalisation to this effect. From ‘QUOTIDIAN’ meaning ‘everyday’ or ‘ordinary’

Driving instructors always have moustaches

Conceding that some may indeed have moustaches ,this simply isn’t true.For a start many driving instructors are women or are these the ones you are referring to?  Had you been the person who posted ‘ Saints never have moustaches’there would at least have been some truth in it as you’d be hard put to find a Zappa or a Freddie Mercury on any figure in a church stained-glass window. But that too was binned on the same grounds as ‘Barristers never drive white vans’ and ‘Royal cars never have roofracks’ because such observations are way outside the realm of common quot which is largely about what always  is rather than what isn’t. (*****)

 

(Don Stackpool, Hereford) - eject

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