(1) Some of it has become a bit tatty over the years, but that's all part of the eccentricity and charm of the place.
(2) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(3) Adopted as a political prisoner by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, he received thousands of cards and letters of support – a tiny sample jammed into a tatty brown envelope bearing the address of Russia's federal prisons service.
(4) He turned out instead in the same tatty old jackets and pale yellow shirts without a tie that he had had in his wardrobe for decades.
(5) Carlisle's fiancé, Trevor Harris, pulls out a tatty fiver from his pocket to draw his own comparisons.
(6) Burns is, according to the poet Edwin Muir, "to the respectable, a decent man; to the Rabelaisian, bawdy; to the sentimentalist, sentimental; to the socialist, a revolutionary; to the nationalist, a patriot; to the religious, pious …" So no doubt, this January at the start of referendum year , even diehard unionists will be searching around for words of his that seem to support their position and, where they can extrapolate them, sprinkling them around with abandon to salt their haggis, neeps and tatties at Burns suppers the length and breadth of the land.
(7) "Cataclysmic money" was spent razing extant if tatty inner city zones, with their diverse uses, their self-generated social and economic energy vibrating on crowded sidewalks.
(8) It is 10am and the tatty apartment blocks of southern Moscow are still shrouded in winter darkness as a slender young woman hurries towards the metro.
(9) The 12 panel members, all undecided voters, flagged up a wide range of issues, from affordable housing to cycling safety, from the tattiness of some parts of Taunton to the lack of a decent music venue that might tempt big bands further west than Bristol.
(10) Discussions at the central bank over whether to replace the tatty paper fiver with a tougher polymer version started in 2010.
(11) Travel talismans in the shape of little monsters are a collaboration with jewellers Tatty Devine.
(12) the more tatty the present licence-fee system looks.
(13) Nothing beats a whisky hangover like the uber-Scottish Tattie Stack – a pile of double potato scone and smoked bacon topped with Stornoway black pudding and a fried egg.
(14) You can see what Man City has done for the programme and the staff and the participants,” said Kelly, who had gone from taking sessions for six kids on tatty, ripped astroturf eight years ago to having use of City’s money-no-object Etihad Campus.
(15) Rosie Wolfenden, co-founder and managing director of jewellery brand Tatty Devine Rosie Wolfenden started the East London-based business alongside Harriet Vine in 1999.
(16) "My leg was fractured by a bullet," he said, lifting a tatty sheet to reveal a thick white plaster cast.
(17) In the tatty corridors of the school, Abdullah's bodyguard was showing off his hand to journalists – just half an hour earlier his right index finger had been dipped in supposedly indelible ink after he cast his vote.
(18) That it took two years for the first Observer Magazine to appear says much about the debate that went on in the paper's cramped and tatty offices in Tudor Street, just off Fleet Street.
(19) A recent front-page report in the Sun pictured tatty furniture and dodgy light fittings.
(20) But sometimes they are small, dark, have no cupboards, tatty sheets, and an unpleasant shared bathroom.
Tutty
Definition:
(n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide.
Example Sentences:
(1) It had been a key part of Tate's Modern's Pop Life show , which also contains works by Warhol, Jeff Koons and Cosey Fanni Tutti, but the room containing it was sealed off following a visit by officers from the Met's obscene publications unit two weeks ago.
(2) The inquiry took more than a year to be constituted and, when it was, it was on terms that human rights and civil liberties organisations could not accept: those who alleged torture would not be allowed to question those they believed had been complicit in their abuse, while the publication of material would be a matter for Whitehall's capo di tutti capi, the cabinet secretary.
(3) Read more On Monday, Grillo tweeted that the referendum contained a lesson for everyone: “You cannot keep lying to the people without suffering consequences.” Beppe Grillo (@beppe_grillo) Una lezione per tutti: non si può mentire per sempre al popolo senza subire conseguenze December 5, 2016 Many analysts were quick to point out that M5S still faces considerable obstacles, including probable reforms of electoral law that will make it difficult for the party to get a majority.
(4) There was no trend in preference among the remaining suspensions (banana, tutti-frutti, grape, and unflavored).
(5) Or they'd looked at John Byrne's remarkable paintings, or caught his series Tutti Frutti on TV.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Capo di tutti capi: Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Brian de Palma’s 1993 film Scarface.
(7) She is due to earn £110,000 for her three or four day week at the BBC and she had arrived at the hearing in an outfit that must have cost at least a year's salary and wouldn't have been out of place at a capo di tutti capi's mafia funeral.
(8) Andreotti was later accused by Tommaso Buscetta, a mafia supergrass, of having been involved with organised crime, and of having exchanged a ritual kiss with the capo di tutti i capi (boss of all bosses), Salvatore Riina.
(9) I bring up the blockbuster di tutti blockbusters, The Avengers, the billion-dollar-grossing amalgamation of all the previous movies.