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In Chapter VI of Vanity Fair , Thackeray reports on Joe Sedley's drunken avowal to wed Becky Sharp the next morning, even if he had to “knock up the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth,” in order to have him in readiness to perform the ceremony.
When Meyer Schapiro looked at Wheatfield With Crows (July 1890), he saw it as van Gogh's "deepest avowal," the tortured artist's "defense against disintegration" painted a few days before his death.
I suppose I was misled by Bennett's own avowal that he did not have in mind "a grand game of Trivial Pursuit."
The ostensible truth multiplier 1,000 percent (from George McGovern's 1972 avowal of support for his running mate, Thomas F. Eagleton, whom he claimed to support "1,000 percent" and then summarily dropped from the ticket) is now an ironic synonym for "don't bet on it" or even "not on your life."