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‘Train’ working-class kids to be more middle-class? That’s what happened to me
- paulhauggis 13y ago"at the fag end of the great British state grammar school experiment" I didn't know the word "fag" was used in this way in the UK. What does it mean in this context?
- sbuk 13y ago'Fag' in this context is a colloquialism for cigarette, the 'fag end' being a cigarette butt. The implication is the crappy end of the cigarette.