You’re looking for a cab on a busy street, when a man appears, also on the lookout. Except he’s a block nearer to oncoming traffic. Unfair! Not to say rude. But what’s the word for such an offence?

Larry David has the answer, as he does for most social breaches, be it the pop-in (the unannounced visit), the double-dip (using a bitten cracker to scoop a dollop) or the ribbon bully (a charity mugger – or chugger – who pre-pins a fund-raising ribbon to your chest.)

The last three coinages hail from Seinfeld, David’s co-creation with the sitcom’s eponym, while that taxi outrage is called upstreaming, as we learnt from Curb Your Enthusiasm, his second show, recently wrapping after 120 episodes. Add that to the Seinfeld tally, and you have exactly 300 shows – or 150 hours of social analysis.

Larry David in the final episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, No Lesson Learned.Credit: HBO

As Emmys go, David has been........

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