Yes, good points. My knee-jerk reaction is that Trump is far worse – I'm just second guessing it.

I have to keep reminding myself that too. But also, wasn't the Iraq war far worse than anything Trump has done… yet? Possibly due to his incompentence rather than anything else.

That's not how it works. It's always connected words. So feet are 'plates', for 'plates of meat'. Phone is 'dog', as in 'dog and bone'. No cockney slang words for swamp as there are no swamps in the East End of London.

Some Brits use the term 'septics' – cockney rhyming slang: septic tank/yank.

I remember an episode of Degrassi Street from about 35 years ago that was all about how 'retard' was an offensive word. It's stuck with ever since as a 'no-go' word.

It always make me think of the song Baby Driver by Simon and Garfunkel.

I'll give you Crazy Frog.

Still seems pretty provincial when talking about hugely successful and influential bands. Jimi Hendrix and Grateful Dead would qualify by your definition. Led Zeppelin didn't release singles in the UK but no British person refers to them as being 'no hit wonders'.

So what? Maybe there's a country where none of Beyonce's songs chart. Does that mean she's a 'no-hit wonder'?

Seems oddly US-centric to declare a huge internationally successful band with multiple hits who were also hugely influential a 'one-hit wonder' just because they only had one hit in a particular country. The phrase normally refers to acts who flunked one big song, failed to follow it up, then disappeared.

I just thought of five A-ha hits with little difficulty. They did a Bond theme too - sure The Living Daylights got released in the US?

Mike Oldfield had Moonlight Shadow. As others have pointed out Roxy Music were a huge band.

Franz Ferdinand had quite a few hit singles.

I had that song yesterday on the radio for the first time in about 20 years and it was way worse than I remembered it. In my memory it had some kind of conclusion or redemption for the kids, or realisation by them, but no it's just: 1) Kid gets white hair after an accident, 2) Girl humiliated when everyone sees her…

The latter was Edwynn Collins, who also did Rip It Up And Start Again, with the band Orange Juice. He closed out the first Austin Powers film too.

Life's What You Make it too, and Today and Talk Talk. They had lots of hits.

Isn't Mark Ronson a big singles artist? I mean, mostly in collaboration with other people, but so was Uptown Funk.

Dexys Midnight Runners had loads of hit singles.

The Proclaimers had Letter From America too. They've had enough popular songs such that (one of) their best of album is a double.
Tom Tom Club had Wordy Rappingwood.
Cars isn't even Gary Numan's biggest or most famous song from his something like 40-year career, which is surely Are Friends Electric.
Several other artists…

Probably because they had quite a few other hit singles - History, Lucky Man, The Drugs Don't Work, Sonnet. They'd already been a popular band for a few years before B Symphony came out - it's not like they were a novelty act who struck it lucky with one song.