grumbler

Contentious, even unpopular stuff will likely clear the Commons, even with a cohort of Labour grumblers.

This year, though, the grumblers went silent as Oscar voters delivered an unimpeachable best picture field, a group of 10 movies that only a self-proclaimed Scrooge could find fault with.

But Wilkinson was equally persuasive as a working-class grumbler, which is what made him such a terrific secret weapon in the hit 1997 comedy “The Full Monty.”

Resolve one person's grumbles, and potentially create another grumbler.

The Second Amendment grumblers and their gun lobby enablers in Congress and statehouses will trot out the same dire diatribe about the erosion of “freedom” and “safety.”