(1) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
(2) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
(3) [Ranieri] could see that mentally we were still in bed, so he shouted: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!
(4) Inevitably, it has provoked distrust in the rest of the continent: in which the chancellor's costly dilly-dallying during the debt crisis, led to remarks about a third world war in the British press.
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(6) He picks out Liam Lawrence, who dilly-dallies then passes when he probably should have had a shot from distance.
(7) All it took was to listen out for the “dilly‑ding, dilly-dong” of Ranieri’s alarm bell.
(8) Really, no one knows what happened in that room.” Players get away with the same or worse all the time, Dilly adds.
(9) He wouldn't necessarily have chosen that path, but Glamorgan have dilly-dallied over the negotiations.
(10) For weeks now, Hollande has led the European response to the Syrian crisis, pursuing a hawkish approach to Damascus in stark contrast to the dilly-dallying of France's continental allies and neighbours.
(11) One year it was the “dilly‑ding, dilly-dong” bell, and another it was a golden toy Ferrari – a riff on the fact that one newspaper had described Cagliari as a sports car racing through the lower divisions.
(12) After Danny Drinkwater told of the manager’s habit since the start of the season of ringing an imaginary bell to stress how important it is for players to stay alert – with his regular cry of “dilly-ding, dilly-dong” becoming a catchphrase the squad now use cheerfully themselves – Ranieri revealed the gifts he gave his players at Christmas.
(13) That’s why we organised these events.” Under a canopy of glittering red hearts hung to celebrate Valentine’s Day, the flashmob handed out leaflets and danced to a song specially written for One Billion Rising, called Jago Dilli Jago or Awaken Delhi, asking people to end the silence around sexual violence.
(14) He changed tack, led the party, resigned, dilly-dallied between Westminster and Holyrood, then came back to fill a talent and charisma gap.
(15) At Christmas, he gave us each a bell with ‘Cagliari Calcio, dilly-ding, dilly-dong’ and his name on it.
(16) But be warned, Claudio, I nominated Garry Monk for this award last year … Amy Lawrence Dilly ding, dilly dong all the way.
(17) She's actually rather nice, Dasha, somewhere underneath her careful circumspection, her desire not to betray her boyfriend, her politely masked impatience with those who think she's dilly-dallying at projects she really cares about.
(18) Danny Drinkwater provoked much amusement among the British press corps last month, when he revealed the manager’s technique of saying “dilly-ding, dilly-dong” to restore focus whenever energy levels start to dip during training .
(19) 9.37pm GMT 90+3 min: Giaccherini finds himself in space down the left on the edge of the Chelsea penalty area, but dilly-dallies too long, fails to put in a corss and tries to stab the ball forward towards towards Altidore instead.
(20) Dilli Haat , a two-minute walk from the station, is a collection of more than 150 stalls selling artisan goods from across India.
Stagecoach
Definition:
(n.) A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this inexplicable world of Roscos (rolling stock companies), TOCs (train operating companies) and the ORR (Office of Rail Regulation), some private firms are allowed to walk away from contracts rather than face losses – as First Group did on the Great Western last week, while others, such as Stagecoach, demand £100m extra just to keep their promises.
(2) Martin Griffiths, chief executive of Stagecoach – co-owner of Richard Branson's Virgin Rail Group – and chairman of industry body the Rail Delivery Group agrees.
(3) Branson, whose company has run the London to Manchester and Glasgow route with Stagecoach for 15 years, said Virgin could not have topped FirstGroup's £5.5bn bid without "dramatic cuts to customer quality and considerable fare rises which we were unwilling to entertain".
(4) The Spanish family, who abandoned a private equity-backed takeover of National Express last month , was dismayed when National Express subsequently rejected a bid approach from Stagecoach, a rival public transport group.
(5) For a start I can see no evidence that the efficiency of private operators such as First or Stagecoach makes up for the leakage of profits.
(6) Stagecoach has pledged to invest about £140m to deliver what it calls “an improved service and a more personalised travel experience for customers”, and is scheduled to pay £3.3bn in premiums to the government.
(7) Stays at Stagecoach Trails Guest Ranch (+1-928-727-8270, stagecoachtrailsranch.com ), cost from $150pp per night, including all meals and two rides each day (except Sundays).
(8) Entering the showground perched on top of a 1912 stagecoach, the couple watched displays of mutton busting and sheep fighting and then, rather more violently, displays of bull riding by grown men, champions of the spectacle, trying to stay on the backs of bulls for as long as eight seconds, for which they are marked for artistry and skill.
(9) Stagecoach also fell out with the government over its £1.2bn South West Trains contract in 2009 but later resolved the row.
(10) Stagecoach recorded a 17.1% profit margin on its UK bus operations outside London last year, and about 20% from Tyne and Wear.
(11) The Hateful Eight , shot in 70mm and about a motley crew of 19th century bounty hunters and criminals who take refuge in a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass to shelter from a blizzard, no doubt hopes to make it a hat-trick.
(12) But the new operator, which is 90% owned by Stagecoach but prominently features Virgin’s branding, has in effect doubled some passengers’ journey costs by removing the cheapest advance fares.
(13) Starring Bruce Dern, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Kurt Russell in the story of eight 19th-century travellers trapped in a stagecoach stopover after a blizzard hits Wyoming, it is tipped to be part of the 2016 Oscars conversation.
(14) Stagecoach's finance director, Ross Paterson, last week said that extensions on Southwest, East Midland and Virgin Rail – 49%-owned by Stagecoach – meant his company had "nine years of cash flows and earnings guaranteed".
(15) It’s not just the landscape – those red cliffs, mesas rearing up against a crisp and empty sky, that inspired Hollywood producers of the 1930s and 40s to shoot westerns such as Broken Arrow and Stagecoach in the area.
(16) "Stagecoach believes it would have contributed a number of important aspects to the enlarged business, including a robust capital structure and a proven management team led by an experienced and respected chief executive."
(17) National Express was plunged into deep uncertainty a fortnight ago when a £765m rescue takeover proposal from a consortium that included the Cosmen family, Stagecoach and private equity house CVC fell apart.
(18) The Stagecoach chief executive, Brian Souter, has accused the department of being "either dysfunctional or deceitful" in its handling of a contractual dispute over its South West Trains franchise.
(19) Shortly afterwards, the group received a bid approach from rival transport group Stagecoach, but merger talks were broken off by National Express, which said that it preferred to reduce borrowings via a rights issue.
(20) Virgin Trains, which is 49% owned by the transport group Stagecoach, is believed to be considering challenging the decision in the courts.