It sounds fancy, but I've seen what it means for real families and small businesses across the country.

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The thought of going away for six or seven or eight weeks or even three months without my kids - I just didn't fancy it anymore.

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"Our borders with Iran and Kuwait were blocked and there was an international economic blockade, so I remember it was very expensive to buy anything fancy, " she said.

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"It was just the finger-style thing - I just thought I fancy doing something in that style, " he added.

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"If they did meet again it would be a very, very tough fight but I'd still fancy Clinton, " said Poxon.

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It was often remarked that the doctors who attended the least fancy schools (i.e. those that emphasized practice over theory) actually arrived on the wards the most prepared to take care of patients, while those who benefited from what was presumably an enlightened and intellectually enriched curriculum often stumbled initially when they had to take care of an actual person.

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Instead of going on flights of fancy or producing thematic output, most of those who showed in Milan presented clothes that had, dare I say it, a universal commercial appeal.

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