(1) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(2) The Fed is also painting itself as one of the Good Guys in the Libor scandal, pointing out that it spotted the problems in 2008, and promptly tipped off the Brits.
(3) But will Brits elect a man who says he will never use the weapons we have?
(4) But here they come now, the extraordinary defenders of allegedly ordinary Brits, the voice of a resurgent people.
(5) "Then the European commission and the council will start looking like an ogre here, and what the Daily Mail says – which is not true now – about hostility to the Brits inside the institutions will start being true."
(6) The former Take That star – who has won more Brit awards than any other artist – took home his 16th award after more than 20 years in the business, saying: "I feel like it's my birthday, I feel special, it's lovely, whether people think it or not in my head I'm going, 'brilliant!'"
(7) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(8) The purpose of this study was to test the adrenoceptor interconversion hypothesis of Kunos and Nickerson (Brit.
(9) Ulbricht has denied his involvement in Silk Road, or that he was ever its administrator, but the prospect of a dragnet operation to bring in other dealers following his arrest will still make any of the nearly 960,000 registered users with the site – 30% of whom were in the US and Brits being the second biggest contingent – very nervous.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest EU referendum: Brexit for non-Brits Assuming that the UK votes to remain in the EU, the OECD expects growth to ease from 2.3% in 2015 to 1.7% this year, before recovering to 2% in 2017.
(11) We’re mostly Brits, with a sprinkling of Canadians, Dutch women and a guy from Dubai, and of mixed abilities; some have been surfing for years while others, like me, have barely stood up on a board before.
(12) ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) Maybe the Brits are just having us on.
(13) For the uninitiated, Menelik Watson, is a Brit in the Draft tonight.
(14) The Welch warbler does it and I believe that's all the bases covered: Bitta street cred with Dizzee, NME fodder with Kasabian, bitta Brit pop with JLS and prizes for the new wave of British female performers (Lily, Florence).
(15) Like many Brits involved in the process, Stevens is also a member of Cryonics UK , an organisation which describes itself as "Britain's volunteer standby assistance team", with its own ambulance and specialist equipment.
(16) (But could a native Brit make as many jokes as I have done over the years about Karl Lagerfeld on this newspaper’s fashion pages?
(17) The survey found 70% of Brits believe our present world is in decline, while 55% of respondents thought the bloom had gone off their own lives, and were dubious about the future.
(18) Most Brits voted against Thatcherism, but the Scots – like the northern English – voted more passionately against, and yet suffered some of the worst consequences.
(19) Her staff – a mix of Mexicans, Canadians and Brits – seem like adopted family, all almost falling over one other to keep us guests happy.
(20) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.
Brut
Definition:
(n.) To browse.
(n.) See Birt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sainsbury’s blanc de blanc brut champagne at £22.50 a bottle came joint top of the champagnes, scoring 80%It shared the accolade with Piper Heidsieck brut champagne (£33).
(2) If you’re engrossed in Vanity Fair (either the magazine or Thackeray’s novel, it makes no difference), you’ll need something that covers everything from the Cannes Film Festival to Becky Sharp so try Champagne Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Brut NV (£33, sainsburys.co.uk ).Or, try a glass of 2012 Domaine des Rochelles Anjou Rouge L’Ardoise (£10.15, hhandc.co.uk ), ever-so-slightly chilled.
(3) The BBC has apologised after one of its longest-serving presenters appeared to promote Brut aftershave on Radio 4’s Today programme.
(4) For Brut, he would become associated with aftershave, for the NHS, he was a face to encourage flu jabs for the elderly.
(5) ), I would drink Codorniu Brut NV Cava (£8.99, waitrose.com ).
(6) Jimmy Anderson, who was speaking to us in conjunction with Brut aftershave, who he is an ambassador for,” he said at the end of the clip.
(7) March 30, 2017 @DavidMerson wrote: “Jimmy Anderson in conjunction with Brut!
(8) March 30, 2017 Tom Bower (@tombower) @BBCRadio4 sports report this morning incl the words 'in conjunction with Brut' - blatant advertising by #BBC #radio4 not acceptable.
(9) It was a roughly equivalent but more inclusive coinage for art brut (raw art), a 1940s label by Jean Dubuffet for work by inmates of insane asylums, which the French artist described as “unscathed by artistic culture … and the conventions of classical or fashionable art”.
(10) Iain Dale (@IainDale) "That was Jimmy Anderson talking to us in association with Brut Aftershave."