AIBU to think a BBC journalist should know what this means?

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Is it me?

Well this isn't an expression you expect to see on the BBC News app on a Friday morning And surely something you don't ever want to see in an article including Boris Johnson <bleaches brain>

Sorry about that

Sounds like an incoming soggy biscuit competiton (not envy)

Dear God do not let me be around to see that! 😱

Sorry about that

Just noticed your user name

<reaches for more bleach>

I mean I knew they were going to do the leadership election in a quicker style this time but that's a novel approach if ever I saw one. What happens with the final two, a who can wee the furthest contest?

Ha! Brilliant! 😆

Well it's certainly true that everyone in the running is a total wanker so maybe it's a deliberate phrase by the journalist...

I don't want to derail this into a Serious Political Thread though

😂

All I can say is that some BBC website journalists don't have English as their first language, and others are probably unusually pure of mind.

I don't know what's wrong with it. It only means two things to me - to eliminate someone from a competition or to punch someone unconscious. The latter might work in this scenario!

I use the expression knock one out or knock it out to mean achieving something very quickly. I presume it stems from a boxing knockout?

Or yes, to knock one out of a competition

Just pictured all the candidates in boxing gloves with the weakest being knocked unconscious. Wouldn't fancy Sunak's chances over Mordaunt and Johnson in a boxing match.

Was also puzzled that in her resignation speech, the PM talked of not delivering the mandate she was given. Wouldn't it have been delivering the agenda using her mandate?

Knock one out - wank. As in - 'He knocked one out under cover of the duvet.'

It's slang for having a wank

I wasn't aware of this slang meaning.

But oh dear.

I've never heard that meaning either and dh, ds, dd and ds's mate have enlightened me of all kinds of slang meanings so I've not been living in a cave.

I suspect the journalist or sub knew exactly what it could mean and included it for their own amusement.😄

Oh they knew

I didn’t know the slang either. I spent a couple of minutes trying to work out if “reaching the threshold “ was slang for something before I read on and the penny dropped.

The conservative party members vote on the final 2 between next Tuesday and Friday.

Who would have to count all those inevitably sticky ballots? 🤢

It appears to be a northern thing maybe? (We have the best expressions )

I suppose the new PM be the one who comes first in the contest.

Definitely. I remember one where the challenge was to say ‘Phil the Greek’ meaning Prince Philip. They put it into something financial, added a tenuous link to Greece, and said ‘Fill the Greek coffers’.

The media have loads of Finbarr Saunders level double entendres, and most are deliberate. Some well known ones:
Great tits cope well with warming (BBC)
Elton takes David up the aisle (The Sun)
Fuchs off to Antarctic (NY Times)
Prostitutes appeal to Pope (unknown)
Butt blow for Newcastle (Guardian)
NZ finds Black Cox hard to swallow (The Register)
Munching Swedish beaver causes blackout (The Local)
Tiger Woods plays with his own balls (AP)