The phrase
"pure poison" refers to someone or something that is extremely harmful or dangerous.
Full definition
Indeed the «rules» created in one cycle may be
pure poison in the next one.
Mr Mandelson is said to have «
dripped pure poison» when describing Gordon Brown and also informed Mr Osborne that the next general election will be held in May 2010.
There is more
at Pure Poison, Floating Life and the Courier Mail (from Graham Readfearn).
The revelations follow claims last year by George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor, that Lord Mandelson, at a private meal between the two men at a Greek taverna, had «
dripped pure poison» about Mr Brown shortly before his return to the Cabinet.
The only thing that is important is the fact that Joozhy the Awful is
pure poison to the EPL.
He is
pure poison to the league.
Both are good managers and despicable human beings who are
pure poison to the league.
this website is pure poison
They are
pure poison to the environment.
Steve Jones says that, despite being used to the «rough and tumble of politics» after working for Government whips in Westminster, he found the behaviour of some at the top of the Welsh Government was «
pure poison» and like nothing he'd «ever seen before».
On the same holiday Mandelson was accused of dripping «
pure poison» into George Osborne's ear about Brown.
The mixture of leverage, alien domiciled subsidiaries, reinsurance underwriting leverage, plus complex and novel securitization structures was
pure poison.