fag
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The ICC cannot allow the championship to continue as if designed on the back of a fag packet.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
Afterwards, lead Studio E architect Bruce Sounes sent an email to Mr Harris of Harley saying his "back of a fag packet" figure for the cladding had been deemed over-budget, according to emails.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2020
No sickies, no holiday, no Tweetdeck, no fag breaks, no long lunches, no watercooler chit-chat, no urge-driven browsing, no early finishes.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2019
But at the fag end of the year the boom evaporated, and, coupled with lower demand from China, led to a pile-up of unsold chips at distributors and retailers.
From Reuters ● Feb. 15, 2019
We’d heard that the father was a bricklayer’s mate, and I suppose we were expecting some cheeky little chap with a fag stuck on his lower lip.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Like a smoker finishing her very last pack of fags, May has appeared in recent months to be perpetually intending to quit as Prime Minister, without ever quite managing to do it.
From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2019
He - Burton - would walk around with his fags in his hand and I'd say cassocks have pockets you know.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2012
They also refer to more bizarre matters, including “bent bananas”, ‘British jam’ and how “Farage he likes his fags and beer”.
From Newsweek
The young servants are called fags, their service fagging, because in the 1660s "to fag" meant to toil.
From Time Magazine Archive
True, he could not take his meals at the high table, neither could he set fags running errands for him, but he possessed resources denied to most boys.
From A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay
Twain was fagged out after the night train and chitchat, and his thigh was hurting.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2016
It lasted from 8:30 that evening until 2:30 a.m., with a fagged and humorless Molotov patiently enduring the humor of the other two.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every member was fagged by Saturday afternoon when Democratic assistant Chief-of-Staff Walsh of Montana arose to beg the Young Turks to have mercy on their older colleagues and not work them into their graves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead, Kennedy stepped up the tempo, exhorted his fagged aides to renewed action.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Now get some sleep, Matthias. I’m fagged out after that snack. My old honorable war wound is beginning to play me up. I must have a bit of a snooze.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
The inquiry was told that Mr Hahn had opposed corporal punishment and the school did not feature other practices common to boarding schools such as "fagging."
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2021
It was she who fanned to new endeavor the fagging spirits of her husband, in those moments of discouragement which are apt to come to all engaged in intense scientific research.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2011
The young servants are called fags, their service fagging, because in the 1660s "to fag" meant to toil.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thoughtful English parents last fortnight had their attention directed to an incident of much more gravity, a far sterner condemnation of fagging.
From Time Magazine Archive
No sooner were the tents pitched than the crowd assembled, and it was another noisy and fagging day.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
