Here's a riddle to change the subject: what English catch-phrase, indicating someone is better than he seems, would also apply to a yacht owner whose vessel is even more dangerous than the inlet in which she is anchored? - His barque is worse than his bight.

— Patrick Leigh Fermor In Tearing Haste. Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Edited by Charlotte Mosley (2008)

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