(1) Gordon Clark, UK country manager of travel shopping consultancy Global Blue, predicts even higher spending in 2015: “Last year, spend by Arabic shoppers was up 43% for the period,” he says, “and as retailers and hotels improve their services to accommodate them, by bringing in Arabic-speaking staff and learning their culture’s customs, the UK is becoming an increasingly appealing shopping destination for them and we expect spend growth to remain strong.” Interestingly, even without explicit “Muslim-friendly” branding, it’s a doddle to shop for “modest” looks on the high street these days.
(2) And Hitchcock was a doddle compared to Capote, with his helium voice, the birdlike mincing, the urbane spikiness.
(3) The iPhone 3GS turns all that on its head: anything to do with the web, email, services such as Twitter and maps is a doddle; but things that are natural on a normal mobile phone, like sending a text or picture message, become fiddly.
(4) They have made the so-called Group of Death seem a doddle: and now Italy face a do-or-die showdown with Uruguay, who, as you may be aware, of good recent experience of such clashes.
(5) Doddle has 7,000 members who pay £5 a month for unlimited collections at its stores.
(6) ''As long as I get a clear view, the distance is a doddle.''
(7) If there were an abundance of fuel for mid-course corrections, then interplanetary navigation would be a doddle – indeed simpler than driving a car or ship, in that the destination is always in clear view.
(8) Moyles seemed astonished that a live news programme would have such documents, suggesting that hosting the show must be a "doddle" when you are told "the questions to be used in the interview and what the answers are going to be".
(9) Compared with the delicate gynaecological, urological and plastic surgery she uses for five-hour gender-reassignment operations, FGM-restorations are a doddle.
(10) The interim first-team coach's assistant, Eddie Newton, ended up departing the stadium with a smile and "this job's a doddle, isn't it?"
(11) Crushing sweet ginger biscuits into melted butter is a doddle.
(12) It suits him: people give him a lot of bananas, and clambering up to retrieve books from high shelves becomes a doddle.
(13) According to the TES, teachers posted in an online forum claimed iGCSE English papers were "an absolute doddle" and "way easier" than the domestic version.
(14) Delivering a lecture is a doddle compared to linking theory or research to real families, with everyone watching.
(15) People have looked to books like the Savoy Cocktail Book and 60% to 70% of the recipes use gin; vodka wasn’t available.” Gin’s heritage also helps explain demand, Stokes says: “A good story will always help you sell your product.” Plus, it can be made quickly: you can distill gin in just eight hours, a doddle compared to ageing a whisky for 10 to 12 years.
(16) Britons' enthusiasm for click-and-collect services has also seen Network Rail set up a joint venture with Travelex founder Lloyd Dorfman to invest £24m in 300 Doddle pick-up-points at stations.
(17) One of the sector’s more recent arrivals is parcel service Doddle , which has more than 30 outlets – it calls them “stores” – located mainly at urban train stations in places such as London, Brighton, Glasgow, Manchester, Norwich and Southampton.
(18) Perhaps it was felt that a decision on airport capacity would be a doddle for a man who has dealt with all that.
(19) They’re never going to be nicking this stuff without it having a place to go to already arranged.” As for getting it out of the country these days: “It’s a doddle.
(20) Handle this ordeal and running Britain is a doddle.
Toddle
Definition:
(v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
(n.) A toddling walk.
Example Sentences:
(1) So off he toddled with his bindle-stick to play at running away, taking refuge at Sally's house.
(2) Being a toddler, she toddled a bit; she knocked over a bottle of Dettol spray, and in a staggering act of pre-school vandalism, broke the nozzle.
(3) Thank you, thank you,” he says, then dictates into my tape recorder: “‘You’re a fuckin’ star,’ she says walking by, an attractive young woman in burgundy jeans.” Is there a danger that he’ll lead the masses up the hill, then toddle off to Hollywood and give up on the revolution?
(4) Already, my toddling cousins – the people we call "digital natives" today – would pose in front of my phone and make clicking sounds: smart enough to understand what phones should be able to do; stupid enough that they could not see mine was not fit for purpose.
(5) She was just standing by the big sash window in her bedroom when she spotted Mrs Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens unguarded.
(6) At the Christmas family gathering that year, Grandfather deemed any and all children present who were old enough to walk instead of toddle therefore old enough to sing a carol, recite a poem, and drink a cup of kindness made with brandy, cinnamon, and apples.
(7) Updated at 5.50pm BST 5.39pm BST Amid lots of yelping and squealing by idlers on the side of the road, the riders toddle around Versailles.
(8) The brands bang on as though they are philanthropists rather than brands seeking to lock down kids as consumers as soon as they can toddle to the pretend bank.
(9) Led by her exasperated mother, she toddles in coughing and spluttering helplessly into the doctor’s face.
(10) Despite its subject, the short story is funny and thought-provoking, based on the real event when Mantel actually spotted Thatcher "toddling" around the hospital gardens of the Windsor flat she lived in.
(11) Like an anxious parent unwilling to trust the house to a teenage son, Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has told Mario Balotelli that he can't risk leaving him behind when he toddles off to the World Cup.
(12) She's going to walk along the line with her thank you and bye-bye, then toddle round the side, duck into a limo and she's away.
(13) Manager news now and filling Steve McClaren’s shoes at Newcastle will be Rafa Benítez , who’ll keep the Magpies up before toddling off in the summer and paving the way for either David Moyes or Brendan Rodgers (or maybe even both) to take up the reins.
(14) The child, rescued from the trafficker, is now toddling around outside the house in just a nappy.
(15) Sure, Oxford mathematicians could toddle off to Barclays Capital.
(16) 9.18pm GMT 75 min: Neuer has to toddle out of his box against to reach a short back pass.
(17) Mitt Romney's merry world tour toddles on today with a visit to Poland.