(n.) Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are bouquets and photographs, that famous Freddie Starr front page framed on the wall, a large blond-wood desk upon which lie a guide to St Lucia, a letter from Boodles the jeweller, and a book cover, which I read upside down: Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman.
(2) This week's edition of the FT's How to Spend It, suggests some Christmas foibles – £625 gloves, £705 Black Amber perfume, a £10,000 Boodles bangle.
(3) Ideas that cater to new food trends, such as ready made “courgetti” – spaghetti made from courgettes – and “boodles” – noodles made from butternut squash – also helped attract new shoppers.
(4) It is currently the most valuable real estate available on the market and generates annual rents of £19.3m from retailers such as Boodle & Dunthorne, Mango and Zara.
(5) "Sweetheart," he says to whoever is on the other end of the line, and sitting the other side of the frosted glass, "I do need to speak to Charlotte at Boodles.
(6) The raid came on the day of the Stop G8 group's Carnival against Capitalism, targeting banks, hedge funds, mining and oil firms in central London as well as Claridge's hotel and Boodle's private club in the runup to the summit in County Fermanagh.
(7) But yet another half-cock game of hunt the boodle dragging out week after week?
(8) It also featured the private clubs Annabel's and Boodle's, and Buckingham Palace.
(9) In addition to Heaton, other members of the panel are Patrick Mears (chair), a senior tax partner at law firm Allen and Overy; Michael Hardwick, a consultant at law firm Linklaters; Brian Jackson, vice-president for group tax at Burberry group plc and previously tax partner at KPMG ; Sue Laing, a partner at law firm Boodle Hatfield; Gary Shiels, a business consultant; and Bob Wheatcroft, a partner in accountancy firm Armstrong Watson.
Lolly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, it's possible to imagine circumstances in which more disclosure serves to inflate pay – for instance, Goldman Sachs's bankers might use revelations within Barclays' annual report to demand even more lolly for themselves.
(2) Touches such as dog biscuits and children's lollies are also intended to make clear to customers that service rather than price is the main proposition.
(3) On a good day, all Layla required was her normal preemie accoutrement: a central line IV that started in between her fingers and ended near her heart, and required her arm to be immobilised by what looked like a splint made of lolly sticks and gauze; a nasal cannula that delivered a steady flow of oxygen, the pressure of which would change depending on how many times she stopped breathing that day; a blood oxygen monitor attached to her foot; four or five wires that measured her heart rate; and the feeding tube inserted through her throat or nose.
(4) While he is talking, someone sneezes, and he gives them a lolly.
(5) Hampstead Heath, as he doesn't mind telling you, was a kind of sylvan sweetshop so far as he was concerned, a Swizzles lolly behind every tree.
(6) I’ll be here from 6.30pm to keep an eye on every fearful Foxtrot and chilling Charleston, so grab the bowl of Trick or Treat leftovers (mostly Cadbury's Fudge bars and Drumstick lollies, in my case) and join me in the comment box.
(7) It also makes a range of Nestlé products, including Fab lollies, and ranges for Ribena, Thorntons and others.
(8) In only one instance – Adam Lawrence and Lolly Adefope’s escapology act – is effort made to astonish with skill, rather than amuse with the lack of it.
(9) Shemmings has brought with him some chocolate lollies to demonstrate a particular concept.
(10) Signorini had tried to suggest his critics in “gelatogate” were leftwing foes that had enjoyed a suggestive video featuring Pascale licking an ice lolly .
(11) For souvenirs that go beyond the usual tat, meanwhile, call +30 210 92 45 064 to book a visit to appointment-only design shop Greece is for Lovers , which sells such tongue-in-cheek mementos as marble ice lollies and Zeus-style lightning bolt paper knives.
(12) Plastic rubbish including sweet and lolly wrappers also rose by 3% in 2012 compared with 2011, the annual count of litter on UK beaches in the Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) beachwatch big weekend showed .
(13) There are things you need to fight, and anorexics isn’t one of them.” One of her favourite jokes comes from a lolly stick she read when she was 14.
(14) Sixty-eight per cent of the intakes among the lower social class 12-year-old children was in the form of cheap sugar-containing drinks, ice lollies and sweets which they bought themselves and consumed away from home.
(15) King Phil and his wife, Queen Tina – she’s a businesswoman who conveniently owns a lot of the family’s wealth – come in at No 29 this year, their £3.2bn total was £280m down on the previous year after the sale of exhausted BHS for the price of an ice lolly.
(16) After pieces of plastic, the most commonly found items were crisp, lolly and sweet wrappers, little bits of string and cord, caps and lids, polystyrene pieces and drinks bottles.
(17) Last year the miserable early summer weather and rising prices meant the volume sold in cones, tubs and stick lollies was down 11% compared with 2007, at 333m litres.
(18) Retailers sold £8.2m worth more lollies in the week to 13 July compared with the same week last year, a 293% improvement.
(19) That has helped boost the total value of the market in desserts from the freezer, as lollies are typically 16% more expensive per kilogram than ice-creams.
(20) Although the weather has now cooled a little, Tesco neverthless expects to sell 150% more lollies in the last two weeks of July compared with the same period last year.