fag
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Shadow justice secretary David Lammy said the plan lacked detail and was "written on the back of a fag packet" to "assuage" anti-racism protests.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2020
In archival video from that day, a protester clambers to the top of the gates and sits there nonchalantly smoking a fag, while police in short-sleeved shirts look on in horror.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2020
Afterwards, lead Studio E architect Bruce Sounes sent an email to Mr Harris of Harley saying his "back of a fag packet" figure for the cladding had been deemed over-budget, according to emails.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2020
No sickies, no holiday, no Tweetdeck, no fag breaks, no long lunches, no watercooler chit-chat, no urge-driven browsing, no early finishes.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2019
We’d heard that the father was a bricklayer’s mate, and I suppose we were expecting some cheeky little chap with a fag stuck on his lower lip.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Like a smoker finishing her very last pack of fags, May has appeared in recent months to be perpetually intending to quit as Prime Minister, without ever quite managing to do it.
From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2019
He - Burton - would walk around with his fags in his hand and I'd say cassocks have pockets you know.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2012
They also refer to more bizarre matters, including “bent bananas”, ‘British jam’ and how “Farage he likes his fags and beer”.
From Newsweek
The young servants are called fags, their service fagging, because in the 1660s "to fag" meant to toil.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the School House every prefect was allowed four fags, so as Foster and Gordon were both prefects, the games study had a goodly crowd of menials.
From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec
Twain was fagged out after the night train and chitchat, and his thigh was hurting.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2016
Mrs. Kennedy's husband, David, came down from London, "fagged and wretched."
From Time Magazine Archive
It lasted from 8:30 that evening until 2:30 a.m., with a fagged and humorless Molotov patiently enduring the humor of the other two.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is ordered to take a brief rest so that he will not be too fagged for next week's meeting.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Now get some sleep, Matthias. I’m fagged out after that snack. My old honorable war wound is beginning to play me up. I must have a bit of a snooze.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
The inquiry was told that Mr Hahn had opposed corporal punishment and the school did not feature other practices common to boarding schools such as "fagging."
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2021
It was she who fanned to new endeavor the fagging spirits of her husband, in those moments of discouragement which are apt to come to all engaged in intense scientific research.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2011
Eton was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but fagging did not begin until the 17th century.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although "fagging" has been abolished at some institutions, many a middle and upper-class Englishman likes to believe that the rigors of public school life fit youngsters to become Backbone-of-the-Empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tom Brown, as readers will remember, was in deep trouble at Rugby about the fagging system in vogue during his "school-days."
From Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
