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  • pelting down → usually said of rain
  • Chilterns: the Chiltern Hills, a chalk escarpment in southern England, most prominent in Buckinghamshire → the Chiltern Hundreds, a wooded district in Buckinghamshire, are used as a procedural device in the House of Commons; an MP who wishes to resign applies for tenureship of the Chiltern Hundreds in order to subvert an archaic rule which forbids Members from resigning
  • pillars