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Seeing these dead beasts suspended by their tails elicited a "gallows-like" feeling, he recounts, but not fear.

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Asked what the flamboyant star would have worn, his bandmate replied: "I think it would be formal. He wouldn't do the short shorts or the leotard. He'd be in tails, very elegant."

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Still, ”everybody is really, really working their tails off to put this fire out just as soon as they can,” he said.

Aside from the timing, this is a 'heads it's awkward, tails it's awkward' situation for the prime minister.

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Fijian tails were up until Orr pounced on a loose ball to turn defence into attack.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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