"blinded by a champagne cork"

Politics Say what you like about Boris, and you can say a lot about Boris, he's always available for the unexpected answer to the predictable question. Here he is being interviewed by NPR (who call him the "the mayor with scarecrow hair") about his new book:

"As for Johnson's political future, he's not looking toward party leadership or anything else beyond his mayoral term.

"I've got a four-year mandate. I've got a huge job to do," Johnson says. "How can I put this: It's not something I think is likely. Conventionally, what I say is, I'm more likely to be blinded by a champagne cork, or decapitated by a Frisbee, or reincarnated as an olive, or locked in a disused fridge."

Or fall in a river.