(1) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(2) It’s that the British are so fascinated by toffs that we give them a free pass as long as they stay on brand.
(3) It has got to stop, this fashion for toffs to pose as ordinary.
(4) It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs … The abiding sin of the government is not that some ministers are rich, but that it seems unable to manage its affairs competently."
(5) There is still a sizeable chunk of the world which sees the English as top-hatted toffs who can be cruel to their urchins, so it remains to be seen what they will think after the British Council's celebrations of Charles Dickens' bicentenary.
(6) "You, and George, in particular, have been portrayed as public school toffs.
(7) I will leave the public to judge his actions.” Mick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, said it should be no surprise that his black cab members across London were considering “a boycott of the Tory toff David Mellor over his outrageous, pompous and disgraceful tirade against one of their colleagues”.
(8) Rex Hunt, fully dressed in his governor's tights and ostrich plumes, was widely seen, not least by toffs in the Foreign Office (FCO), as a slightly Wodehousian figure, the kind more likely to be seen in slacks propping up the golf club bar in a colonial outpost.
(9) A decade earlier, the clever grocer's daughter Margaret Thatcher had devastated Tory toffs with a gale-force combination of vicious class resentment and sexy ankles.
(10) Champagne socialism in action The Mirror's determination to photograph Tory toffs clutching glasses of champagne did not end with the page one Cameron shot which led to the Tory leader renouncing the stuff ("He's had a good talking to," said Samantha C) for the duration of the class war.
(11) Hutchings, a mother-of-four, also declared that she was not a "rich Tory toff" and said she once had to borrow £1.80 to pay for parking from members of a job club she ran because the cash machine would not give her any money.
(12) It affects how voters see Tory choices on tax, welfare and public services – toffs and plebs – in the most damaging way possible.
(13) Fourteen-year-olds pontificating on this must be making the old field marshal turn in his grave, and this debate also perpetuates the myth that British soldiers were "lions led by donkeys", the idea that the brave ordinary Tommy was let down by the brandy-soaked toffs in charge.
(14) As the tagline – "May the best man live" – suggests, it's basically the same old flick with the same old schtick: the Stath tops baddies, boffs toffs (he's a one-man manifesto for geezer supremacy), and cops off with a blondie.
(15) This government has difficulty in managing a non-story about the chancellor upgrading his ticket on a train, or the stupidity of the former chief whip (who is no toff) behaving like a saloon-bar bore.
(16) The first thing you learn about him is what a toff he was: born into a banking family, Fleming's father was Conservative MP and friend of Churchill, Valentine Fleming.
(17) Jonathan was in constant demand whenever a comic toff or a bumbling cleric was called for on TV.
(18) Before Sky, Schuster was head of development at Toff Media, the specialist drama and comedy company founded by Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller.
(19) Miliband rejected criticisms of Labour's election broadcast, which portrayed the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, as the "Un-credible Shrinking Man" and Conservative cabinet ministers as out-of-touch "toffs".
(20) Your report on Vladimir Putin’s progress from pariah to powerbroker ( Putin has been taken off the menu and returned to the top table , 18 November) reminds me of previous instances where reactionary toffs let their prejudices over Russia cloud their judgment.
Tuff
Definition:
(n.) Same as Tufa.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Bandelier national monument , tucked deep inside Frijoles Canyon, ancient Puebloan people used hand tools to shape natural caves in the tuff into shelters known as cavates.
(2) Isotopic determinations on a tuff below the fossiliferous horizon gives dates of 4.96 my and 5.25 my.
(3) While talking an assailant into surrendering may not always be an option, the fact that Tuff successfully did so is a testament to the fact that violence does not always have to be the first answer and that tragic situations can be resolved without the use of force.
(4) Antoinette Tuff, a school clerk at the Ronald E McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia, saw 20-year-old Brandon Michael Hill enter the school with an assault rifle and several other weapons.
(5) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian We had a really nice house and fields of tomatoes [in Mexico] but it was so unsafe Luis Galvan Galvan’s Daca permission expires next year.
(6) I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.” Wheego A US company that was spun out of Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles, a manufacturer of recreational electric vehicles such as golf carts.
(7) The white cliffs, hoodoos and slot canyon are all made of of volcanic tuff that erupted around a million years ago.
(8) The hominid tracks in Tuff 7 at Site G in the Garusi River Valley demonstrate bipedality at a mid-Pliocene datum.
(9) Bimesaraic arteriography may show typical images where extravasation of contrast medium is associated with vascular tuft or "tuff".
(10) Over time, this ash layer solidified into a soft, easily eroded, whitish rock called tuff.
(11) Around 30m years ago, rhinos, camels, giant ground sloths and saber-toothed cats roamed a lush grassland before being buried by a series of volcanic eruptions, which preserved their bones in colourful layers of tuff.
(12) Instead of resorting to violence, the school implemented its evacuation procedures and Tuff engaged Hill in a conversation .
(13) Antoinette Tuff showed us it can be done another way, and we need to follow her lead.
(14) Ultrastructurally 4 basic types of inclusion bodies in Schwann cells could be demonstrated (pleo-morphic "zebra body"-like inclusions, double-lamellated inclusions, "tuff-stone"-like inclusions, granular osmiophilic inclusions).
(15) Epidemiological and environmental surveys in the Cappadocian region of Turkey have linked the high incidence of pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma in the occupants of some villages with the zeolite fibres released from the locally occurring volcanic tuff.
(16) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian In the midst of a prolonged drought, vegetable and fruit growers are angry that rivers are allowed to carry more of their water out to sea to help preserve an endangered fish, the delta smelt, while water for irrigation is in effect rationed.
(17) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian If Galvan is afraid of being forced out of the country, Jenny Beard is fearful of staying.
(18) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Luis Galvan gets why a lot of people in Porterville voted for Trump even if he thinks they are mistaken.
(19) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Beard complained and the co-worker was reprimanded.
(20) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Maddox and Galvan live in Porterville, a small, conservative city nestled under the Sierra Nevada mountains, far from the prosperity and glamour of California’s coast.