Sentence examples for a dire straits from inspiring English sources

Certainly, being a Dire Straits fan is never easy.

Mark Knopfler, for example, who once wrote a Dire Straits song about the Battle of Orgreave from the point of view of the miners.

THE unrepentant cheats among the big-time athletes and mercenary scoundrels inside the circle of coaches have been humming along with a Dire Straits tune for years until "Money for Nothing" has all but become a college fight song.

Cash – a Dire Straits fan – groans and says: "You get some long lost Yank come over and write a song, and then …" He is also a football fan, if perhaps less fervent and more pragmatic than the Millwall-loving Crow: first going to watch Watford FC with his future wife in the late 1970s and later becoming a season ticket holder as a way to spend time with his son.

The band tried playing a Dire Straits song, which was a horrible, nearly unforgivable mistake.

Brad's ghetto blaster: "When the coffee is served, he pops a Dire Straits CD- from a loose pile that includes the Platters, Ray Charles and Led Zeppelin – into a CD ghetto blaster sitting on a shelf by the kitchen table".

This explains why its fortunes are in such a dire strait, and why so many people got so excited about Chung gracing the brand with her fashion appeal.

Just as Dave Davies nixed a reunion of the Kinks and Robert Plant refused a Led Zeppelin tour, Mark Knopfler is the man standing in the way of a Dire Straits reunion.

Or maybe, to quote that curl-up-in-a-fetal-position Dire Straits classic, Romeo and Juliet, "It was just that the time was wrong".

Here are four unpleasant surprises that could prompt a crisis: A lender in dire straits.

"Far better to complain and be thought of as stupid or prissy… As part of the outreach for the Langdale Gallery, I met a family in dire straits as a result of dodgy landlords and damp.