Sentence examples for The fillip from inspiring English sources
noun
A flick; the act of releasing the index finger from the hold of a thumb with a snap.
The fillip it brings to Azerbaijan, and to a lesser extent to Georgia, will help to shore up the shaky finances of two ex-Soviet countries.
The fillip followed a dismal 2014 for the unit, when pre-tax profits at the investment bank dropped by a third.
The fillip to the economy will be temporary but perhaps substantial, contributing up to one percentage point to growth in 2010.The biggest reason for modest confidence, however, is that cheaper sterling should help British firms take advantage of a recovering world economy.
Rousing rhetoric from world leaders partly explains the fillip.
Despite the fillip from the temporary reduction in value-added tax, consumer spending will fall sharply.
More than most, he needs the fillip of knowing it is going well.
The fillips in the third dimension (a scarf flung in the spectator's face, a ghoulish Charles Bronson jumping a victim from the shadows of the auditorium) are mere frills.
Various special effects come built in, but you're better off saving the fillips for the editing room.
Even the crowds coming out of the feelgood fillip of the packed finals of the beach volleyball on Copacabana were a reminder of the corporatism that is hardwired into the Games.
The demonstrators played a tape of bubbling cauldrons and vile belches, and the perfect fillip was the stench that hung in the air -- which was not even their idea, just dumb luck that a sewer crew was working nearby.
There's no equivalent of Madrid's Prado, though I do recommend the Tile Museum, dedicated to the decorative fillip that makes the city so distinctive.
