(1) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
(2) "But it is true that I was poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury.
(3) Each week, as another Kipper gets done for some kind of insanity – a £3,000 restaurant bill in Margate?
(4) I did.” He’s done you up like a … well, a proverbial kipper.
(5) For a start, it is impossible: incorrigibility is the defining characteristic of the hardcore Kippers.
(6) "Oh, all that rubbish about Muriel being poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury," he scoffed.
(7) If Kippers are a motley crew of Tory Europhobes, why should the left pay them any mind?
(8) She's appealing to the Kippers and the more extreme wing of her party, no matter what the consequences.
(9) My sister, who is a decade younger than me, suffers from it, too, and is often to be found picking over Whitehorn's advice about how useful the inhabitant of a bedsitter will find a jug - it can be used to make tea and coffee, or to cook kippers - or reading, for the ninth time, the author's warning that her recipe cooking times do not include 'the time it takes you to find the salt in the suitcase under the bed'.
(10) He is joined in the most-borrowed author list by six children's writers – Daisy Meadows, the brand behind the Rainbow Magic series, Donaldson, Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry series, Jacqueline Wilson, Kipper creator Mick Inkpen and the Beast Quest series' Adam Blade.
(11) I said that he resembled a kipper that had been smoked before it was dead, and Julie has blanked me since.
(12) None of these have made a dent in Ukip's support and those imagining one more "big push" on Europe will return the Kippers to the fold are deluding themselves.
(13) One of the greatest sources of anxiety among Labour backbenchers is the fear that immigration is mainly responsible for their leakage of votes to the Kippers.
(14) "I have said many, many times I wouldn't count any chickens", says Dorothy Baker, the 77-year-old retired teacher and grandmother-of-six who is part election generalissimo and part self-confessed mother hen to the "'Kippers" of Somerset.
(15) A source close to the company said: “Sports Direct looks forward to working with the management as a supportive shareholder.” Kipper Williams on Sports Direct Read more Earlier this year, his company took out a put option on shares in Debenhams , which gave it a 16.6% stake as Sports Direct negotiated a deal to manage sports goods areas within the department store chain.
(16) Vote Leave, remember, was meant to be the moderate, judicious voice of Euroscepticism, distinct in manner and content from the vulgar nationalism conveyed by swivel-eyed, puce-cheeked Kippers.
(17) Asked to explain the party's failure in London, Ukip's Suzanne Evans was asked if she agreed with the Kipper who had said the problem was that the capital was too full of the "cultured, educated and young".
(18) Two women laugh: “It’s only us tough old birds who can face the cold.” A man in a linen suit and panama hat sweeps past into the hotel, looking for all the world like Colonel Sanders; he’s by far the nattiest dressed of the Kippers who, on this showing, seem to be late-middle-aged women in bad anoraks.
(19) And before that there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the unions, passengers and politicians about the prospect of higher fares and fewer trains and the general disaster of everything about Britain's railways since the day they stopped serving kippers for breakfast on the night sleeper to Aberdeen.
(20) Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East programme at Washington's Institute of World Affairs "Now he is president, I think we have to see whether Karzai has learned any lessons and whether he has the power and tools to govern in a different way.
Nipper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, nips.
(n.) A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
(n.) A satirist.
(n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
(n.) The cunner.
(n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
Example Sentences:
(1) When I meet Jean-Pierre (who is 63) and Luc (a mere nipper at 60) in a hotel in Paris, it is a few weeks before this year’s festival, where their latest picture, Two Days, One Night , will compete – though ultimately fail – to win a record-breaking third.
(2) According to Indigenous belief, Mick Rhatigan, a former policeman and linesman, and his two Aboriginal workers, Joe Wynn and Nipper, attacked the camp of another black man, Hopples, and shot dead eight occupants.
(3) Francis Barraud painted Nipper in 1898, and sold the painting and the rights to the Gramophone Company two years later for £100.
(4) According to this version, Wynn and Nipper attacked, using Rhatigan’s guns and horses, but without his knowledge.
(5) When prime minister Tony Blair refused to go on the programme, Liddle archly pointed out that the programme, despite 40 requests, had interviewed Tony Blair as often as "we've interviewed Osama bin Laden, Lord Lucan, and Nipper the skateboarding duck".
(6) The advertising strapline we created which sat alongside the iconic image of "Nipper" listening to the gramophone was "Top Dog for Music" and that's exactly what HMV was with record companies kowtowing to this all-powerful retailer, offering up millions of their own money to contribute to HMV's "co-operative" advertising.
(7) Rhatigan was released because he was found not to be involved, while an initial murder charge against Nipper was dropped when Aboriginal witnesses disappeared.
(8) Armchair executives may well say that HMV should have come up with a decent digital strategy earlier (these days, Nipper the dog would not be perched by a gramophone but plugged into an i-Something via a pair of white earbuds).
(9) The 90-year-old retailer, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, has been hammered by the recession as well as online and supermarket competition.
(10) As the reaction to HMV's demise has shown, the brand, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, still holds a cachet for many people.
(11) "It really is the end of an era," said Leonard "Nipper" Read, the Scotland Yard detective who successfully pursued the robbers.
(12) Bruce Reynolds often pondered on this and would remark how “Nipper” Read, the dogged detective who tracked down the Great Train Robbers, told them he reckoned they would have done it even if they had known they were going to get caught.
(13) On the other hand, as "Nipper" Read [the detective who was part of the team that investigated the robbery] said about us, perhaps they would have carried it out even if they had known that they would get caught.
(14) And if one of your nippers was his pupil, I think you would feel the same.
(15) It was taken advantage of this situation to remove the larvae with a pair of nippers.
(16) And he referred to Nipper Read's reflection that, perhaps, the Great Train Robbers would have carried out the robbery even if they had known that they were going to get caught.
(17) Part of that, even now, is down to the charm of that iconic logo, Nipper the dog listening intently to the gramophone, which inspired the His Master's Voice name back when Victoria was on the throne.
(18) Newly-erupted human third molars were fractured buccolingually with heavy-gauge industrial nippers or sectioned mesiodistally with a Leitz saw microtome and fixed in glutaraldehyde.
(19) 2.19pm BST Before Prince George was born, my colleague Josh Halliday wandered around London asking people if they recognised royal babies of the past and what they felt the new nipper should be called.
(20) Nipper, the mascot dog who has looked quizzically down the gramophone trumpet in store windows for more than 90 years, will no longer hear His Master's Voice.