Pretty much so, and that's intentional. My English teacher was a huge arsehole and great anglophile. He would throw the well-known phrases around like "sail a

Pretty much so, and that's intentional. My English teacher was a huge arsehole and great anglophile. He would throw the well-known phrases around like "sail a convict ship to Australia with a crew of ten", "the war was won on the playing fields of Eton" & so on.