fag
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But Labour said the "reannouncement" was just a "back of a fag packet plan".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
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
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
Recorded with Stylistics producer Thom Bell, this ace disco cut from the fag end of Elton’s Philly soul period flopped on release in 1979.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2018
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
He fully appreciates the fleshpots in the prefect's room; and he feels that it is pleasant to have fags to whiten his cricket-boots and make toast for his tea.
From The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay
Twain was fagged out after the night train and chitchat, and his thigh was hurting.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2016
Mrs. Kennedy's husband, David, came down from London, "fagged and wretched."
From Time Magazine Archive
He is ordered to take a brief rest so that he will not be too fagged for next week's meeting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
“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
During his ten years as headmaster McCrum nudged ten of Eton's 25 independent houses into giving up fagging voluntarily.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eton was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but fagging did not begin until the 17th century.
From Time Magazine Archive
June.—I have been cricket-fagging all evening, and it was dreadful; Platt was down, the catapulta was used, and there were very few fags, so I had very hard fagging....
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
