An attempt to summarise the crachach, described as 'tongue-in-cheek', was made by journalist Carolyn Hitt: Supremely confident in all social situations, you can spot them by their habit of looking over your left shoulder as they scan the room for someone more important than you to talk to.
In 1997, when then Welsh Secretary, William Hague MP, became engaged to marry a member of his staff, Ffion Jenkins (the daughter of the one-time head of the Welsh Arts Council, Emyr Jenkins), Roger Dobson of the Independent wrote that Hague was marrying into the crachach.