To call what happened in the years following 2007's Great Recession the " British Ice Boom" is only overselling it insomuch as our consumption of ice still lags way behind the US.
Bear in mind that they will probably call your references and if they find out that you've been exaggerating or lying you'll be at the bottom of the pile.
I am not speaking in phrases of rhetorical exaggeration but in terms of absolute truth to actual fact when I remind you that during the whole time we were together I never wrote one single line.
I could only hope that he had heard an exaggerated rumour for he said that her shares were worse than nothing, and that the bank could not pay a shilling in the pound.
His work formed the basis of this theory for many years until later historians dissected his data gathering and found it to be at best exaggerated and at worse completely fabricated.