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An exclamation of calamity, misfortune or bad karma. Derives
from Latin exclamation ("eheu" literally translates as
"Bummer!").  Likely to be the only word a student remembered
from Latin class, at least in the days when students actually
learned Latin rather than Media Studies and Modern Dance.
Popularised in Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle's classic "How
to Be Topp":  "The Hogwarts by Marcus Plautus Molesworthus  Sene
One. The villa of Cotta at Rome. Enter CORTICUS a dreary old
slave and RADIX his mate  CORTICUS:(laying a skin of wine at the
sideboard) Eheu! (The headmaster and all lat. masters who watch
roar with larffter) RADIX: Eheu! (More larffter they are in
stiches) RADIX: Eheu! (The curtain falls as the masters rolle
helplessly in the aisles.)" Sports fan 1: I see "Abstain for the
All Blacks" is fronted by possibly the least sexy sportsman
alive. Sports fan 2: A fiver says the person who's *behind* the
campaign is his wife. Sports fa