(1) She became a vociferous critic both of the supermarkets, and of the 80s "foodie" culture as satirised in The Official Foodie Handbook by Ann Barr and Paul Levy, a volume she loathed ("To be sure they are skilful enough in the arts of toadying to their public and providing it with a little giggle at itself, but the meaning of satire in the true sense eludes them," she wrote in her review for Tatler ).
(2) It seems futile to sum up the plot, but here goes: The Satanic Verses is constructed around a pair of South Asian Muslims - Gibreel Farishta (meaning the Angel Gabriel), born into poverty as Ismail Najmuddin in Poona "at the empire's fag-end", but who takes up his other name as part of his transformation into a Bollywood star; and Saladin Chamcha (meaning Saladin the Toady), born Salahuddin Chamchawala to a rich and somewhat crass Bombay-based industrialist and his delicate wife.
(3) And if you continue to try to fuck with News International after toadying up to me for so long, then you're in for an even bigger kicking.
(4) A montage of A Question Of Sport clips ensues: first Emlyn Hughes toadying up to Princess Anne, then Matt Dawson forwarding the ass-kissing baton a generation later with her daughter, Zara Phillips.
(5) He toadied to corporations and bankers while depressing the wages of almost everybody else.
(6) Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, accused Shaheed of "toadying to the US and Israel" with a report that he described as unsubstantiated, biased and collated from "anti-Iranian outlets and terrorist groups".
(7) If tonight's match in Doha is an attempt to toady up to Fifa in a bid to secure the rights to stage World Cup 2022, it might be too late.
(8) If the Windsors ever get on their bikes like their Dutch counterparts, some toady like Lord St John of Fawsley will immediately be down on his knees, licking the road clean for them.
(9) The Queen, naturally, is to be asked to sign a reaffirmation of the principles of the great charter – no doubt at Runnymede, where King John was confronted by an eminently less toadying crowd – and there is a plan to get the UN involved to promote the rule of law .
Tody
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.
Example Sentences:
(1) He left England for Barcelona in 1979; when the bars and boys became too much for him, he moved to Italy, where he now maintains homes in Rome and in the Umbrian hill town of Todi.
(2) In this situation spinal section reduced Todi, which became close to the values obtained in intact or spinal cats under SPB anesthesia.
(3) The mean force of cardiac contraction (IJ amplitude) was consistently lower in the group destined todie early than in the other two groups during the first 18 months.
(4) Most post-transfusion hepatitis tody is neither viral hepatitis type B nor type A, and its severity and transmission are reduced by pre-transfusion gamma-globulin.
(5) In addition, Tdi measured during tracheal occlusion (Todi) was markedly prolonged under ECC anesthesia.
(6) Everybody is tody in agreement to admit that 35 to 45 minutes are the security limit of the cardiogenous circulatory stop.
(7) A new type of enzyme hydrolyzing the elastase substrate succinyl-L-alanyl-L-alanine-4-nitroanilide has been found in cell-free rheuma todi synovial fluid.