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A bit Marmite: the jar that became an adjective

A bit Marmite: the jar that became an adjective

To call something 'a bit Marmite' is now official: the OED lists Marmite as an adjective for anything that splits people into love-it and hate-it camps, and it dates the metaphor to 1994, two years before the famous advert everyone credits.

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