This is a thinking person's guide to usage, beside which many other books look like nannies dishing out blancmange or schoolmasters wielding the cane.
When one tries to attack social services, which have a monstrous expenditure, it is like cutting a blancmange.
That slob of wet blancmange hardly sounded like the smack of firm government.
It has all the balance of a wet blancmange.
The brain can be likened to a blancmange in a bowl.
It is like trying to nail a blancmange to the wall.
They have all the balance of a wet blancmange.
However, there is a vague mish-mash of blancmange permissiveness.