What's the difference between civies and civvies?

Civies


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Civvies


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  • (1) The myriad suicide bombings, the cross-border terrorism, the weekly slaughter of poorly-paid policemen and frontier guards – these are not the fault of a rogue institution's misguided priorities, but instead the US-India-Israel axis first, and the "bloody civvies" second.
  • (2) Aly Renwick, author of Hidden Wounds: the Problems of Northern Ireland Veterans in Civvy Street and himself a veteran of that conflict, spent a number of years researching the history of PTSD-related criminal behaviour among British combat veterans.
  • (3) The remaining members of the Force India team left the circuit before darkness fell – and they did so wearing civvies instead of the normal team colours that identify them as part of the grand prix.
  • (4) Her Majesty came in civvies, sporting a smart white silk brocade coat and flower trimmed hat, finished off with an enormous Brazilian aquamarine.
  • (5) As they found, it achieved little apart from a swift(er) transfer to civvy street.
  • (6) He was Superintendent Leroy Logan a fortnight ago, probably the best known black officer in the Metropolitan police, but then his 30 years with Scotland Yard elapsed and now he is in civvies.
  • (7) My view was that I'd done my sentence so why couldn't I go straight back to civvy life?"
  • (8) Here was a sketchbook Hitler had given him in the 1920s: designs for the rebuilding of the city of Linz, which the Führer-to-be (then only a dog soldier in civvies, an obscure war veteran without any political power) projected as a new world capital and had drawn in a heavy Wilhelmine baroque style (none of those huge white classical colonnades yet).
  • (9) After every extracurricular challenge in other people's films, Sandler always snaps back into place in his ordinary Joe, blue-collar civvies.
  • (10) 7.26pm BST Terry attire John Terry has wandered down the tunnel in his civvies.
  • (11) Ben (@dickersonpk) @KidWeil Julio Dely Valdes looks even more capable than Klinsi of doffing his coach's civvies and knocking in a couple July 28, 2013 He does look in very good shape.

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