(1) 1.24pm BST An email: "Re your mentioning Jim White Day, Jim gets his barnet cut in the same pokey barbers as I do in Richmond.
(2) I've previously stood in the pokey bed chamber where it is thought William Shakepeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, the grander birthplace of Winston Churchill at Blenheim Palace and the cramped abode where Stan Laurel breathed his first in Ulverston, Cumbria.
(3) Hocking no longer lives in that pokey apartment, but then she's no longer a struggling would-be author.
(4) What Ms Sturgeon does require to be told is that many of the rest of us have not thus far encountered a spell in the pokey for assorted concealed delinquencies only through fortunate circumstance and the prayers of countless grannies, aunties and mums.
(5) His name is commemorated in a pokey square under the monstrous Stratford Centre built after the clearances.
(6) For what it can cost to rent a room in a pokey flat, you've got the run of a 10-bedroom Victorian house that comes complete with a grand piano, conservatory and a willow tree.
(7) Their thesis is not new, but the evidence of pokey overpriced housing and endless unpaid internships piles up convincingly.
(8) In particular, what will his weird toe-pokey free-kick style do to this ball?
Slammer
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For instance, there is literally no one in the United States who has ever pounded a dinner table in outrage over government complacency, yelling, "But if we're so tough on financial crime, why haven't we thrown those obscure Asian bureaucrats of a foreign bank into the slammer for fixing a London-based interest rate?!"
(2) Short of ordering all prisoners to be flogged twice daily, I can think of nothing more calculated to cause unrest in the slammers than banning snout, burn, tobacco.
(3) This suggests that, today, Newsnight’s releasing the FBI document would land me or my informants in the slammer.
(4) Bovine corneal endothelial cells were cultured on a Collodion film which covered a hole punched in a plastic coverslip, and were quickly frozen with a slammer with their basal surface facing a liquid nitrogen-cooled copper block.
(5) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
(6) Click here to view video The trailer didn't look promising – Waspy blonde gets sent to the slammer where she learns how hard life is for poor black people – but this comedy-drama is finely balanced, funny, sharp and easy to love.
(7) If you ask for a tequila slammer, it will be served with a withering put down – this isn't that sort of establishment.