Are these terrible figures greeted by hysterical "why-oh-why?" letters to the Times demanding a huge shift in resources from road-building to rail-modernisation?
2005, Fred Sedgwick,How to Teach with a Hangover: A Practical Guide to Overcoming Classroom Crises, A&C Black,→ISBN, page94:
Indeed, a right-wing paper is hardly ready for press without awhy-oh-why article on children's failures to identify verbs and nouns.
2006, Ben Summerskill,The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century, A&C Black,→ISBN, page 7:
To mark the introduction of civil partnership in Britain, the Daily Telegraph duly featured a bitter polemic from 'Why-oh-Why' columnist Ferdinand Mount.
2009, Andrew Marr,My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism, Pan Macmillan,→ISBN, page27:
David Starkey and John Casey, a donnish don from Cambridge who cranks out 'why, oh why?' hand-wringing pieces for the Daily Mail, are modern equivalents.
2012, Deborah Moggach,The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Random House,→ISBN, page 3:
... the British health system, once the best in the world, was disintegrating in a welter of underfunding, staff shortages and collapsing morale. A hand-wringingwhy-oh-why piece appeared in the Daily Mail, an internal investigation was ordered.
