Curly shook his head. “The trouble with you lot,” he explained, “is you’re just not at home in the woods.”
And the trouble with your lot, thought Hassan … The trouble with your lot … But there was so much wrong with Curly’s lot that there was no smart phrase to do it justice. The trouble with Curly’s lot was that it contained Curly, and others like him. What more needed saying?
— Slow Horses (Mick Herron), Loc. 5634–7