Yorkshire grit English

Meaning Yorkshire grit meaning

What does Yorkshire grit mean?

Yorkshire grit noun

— (archaic) A kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers.

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British resistance to grand European plans is the democratic grit in an enterprise that could become authoritarian, despite having the best intentions, and should serve as a necessary corrective to the utopianism of the technocrats.

There is more grit on the horizon.

Its acolytes deplore the grit and relativism of politics and issue futile appeals for moral revivals.

Suddenly, the prospect of a new majority beckoned, and Merkel was faced with the choice of giving in or ending the coalition. She grit her teeth and gave in.