fag
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But Labour said the "reannouncement" was just a "back of a fag packet plan".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
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
She has become a familiar trope in film and television, trolleying around with fag ash, drink spilling, hem riding up, and is almost always white.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020
“We had lesbians, fag hags, African-Americans. Most of the drag queens were Spanish. It was a very mixed,” said a man who goes only by the name Tree.
From Reuters ● Jun. 17, 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
"Oh, I dare say we might get over that," Harris replied; "the fags would never peach."
From Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California by H. M. (Henry Marriott) Paget
Twain was fagged out after the night train and chitchat, and his thigh was hurting.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2016
Instead, Kennedy stepped up the tempo, exhorted his fagged aides to renewed action.
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
Mrs. Kennedy's husband, David, came down from London, "fagged and wretched."
From Time Magazine Archive
A mother with a pram will say to other mothers, God above, missus, you must be fagged out carrying that child.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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
The young servants are called fags, their service fagging, because in the 1660s "to fag" meant to toil.
From Time Magazine Archive
During his ten years as headmaster McCrum nudged ten of Eton's 25 independent houses into giving up fagging voluntarily.
From Time Magazine Archive
Holms exacted very little fagging from me; he merely required to be brushed and his things kept tidy in his cupboard, so I was mainly occupied with Snipson.
From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by A.W. Drayson
