fag
Example Sentences
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The ICC cannot allow the championship to continue as if designed on the back of a fag packet.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025
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
In fact, I’m in the BFI office in central London at the fag end of 2019.
From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2020
I was born at the end of the 1970s, which means I am somewhat in a no man’s land, generationally – at the fag end of Gen X, too old to be a millennial.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 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
