«If we vote to stay,» said the man who is now our Foreign Secretary, «then I am afraid the whole EU caravan carries blithely on; and when I think of the champagne - guzzling orgy of backslapping in Brussels that would follow a Remain vote on Friday, I want to weep. (totalpolitics.com)
Once the state's political leaders got past the congratulatory «atta - boys» and backslapping on their most recent effort to reform Albany, the public was left to dig through the details of the legislative agreement. (wamc.org)
But as the two sat elbow to elbow, grinning and backslapping with sincere affection, it was easy to wonder just whose show this really was. (nymag.com)