As I was getting out of a ’bus the conductor said to me in a confidential
tone:
“I say, what does that mean? ‘Sack of Khartoum’? What does ‘Sack of
Khartoum’ mean?”
“It means,” said I, “that they’ve taken Khartoum and played hell with it
all round.”
He understood that and thanked me, whereon we parted.