These days, the idea of a Greek guarantee is pretty much oxymoronic—a word likely derived from the Greek, oxýmōros. Trusting
in the sovereign debt and bank deposits of this weakest EU link
requires chugs of Pepto (another Greece-originated word). Indeed, Greek
citizens with once super-safe public-sector jobs live in perpetual fear
that their wages will be snipped, if not scotched outright.