The phrase "a rabble of a" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a chaotic or disorderly group, but the structure is awkward and incomplete.
Example: "The protest turned into a rabble of a crowd, with people shouting and pushing each other."
Alternatives: "a mob of" or "a throng of".
For Bobby Robson's team the World Cup was a familiar shemozzle, as England lost to a rabble of a Portugal team in Monterrey on a horrible pitch, should have gone out against Morocco three days later but smuggled out a 0-0 drafterteRay Wilkinsns was sent off, and then finally progressed to the quarter-finals via a 3-0 defeat of Paraguay.
"He has got a rabble of a Liberal party, they vote against themselves for the first time in the history of Australia … they run out of business in the Senate, they go home early and now they are going to roll a prime minister because he wants to do what's in his heart," Plibersek told Sky's Paul Kelly.
Considering themselves stalwart Polish patriots, they would travel hundreds of miles every November to the capital, Warsaw, to join a rabble of a few hundred other skinheads on a march to observe Poland's Independence Day.
The second night, "a rabble of combustible professional killers" went on a rampage.
In Azerbaijan, the opposition is a rabble of tired leftovers from a short-lived former coalition government.Another factor was that Georgia still has some free media.
That produces a change in "category membership" and turns a rabble of shirtless, drunken singers into a highly motivated fighting force.Both schools of thought are influential, and both have contributed to the policing of Euro 2004.
On the cover (visually echoing Good Kid, Maad City, where he was the kid on a gang member's lap), Lamar holds a child while a rabble of shirtless men takes over the White House lawn, a judge trampled underfoot.
Certainly it seems unlikely that the British electorate would choose to ignore the Prime Minister, the Governor of the Bank of England, the chief executives of all the FTSE 250 companies and probably the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury in favour of a rabble of splitters from a Monty Python sketch.
Instead, they come across like a rabble of excitable schoolkids.
Parts of the country are now ruled by a rabble of equally conservative or lawless warlords.
But even if I take that bias into account, if I make a strategic analysis of the campaign so far then the Out team looks like a rabble of kids running around a football pitch not sure where the ball has gone, while the In team does at least seem to have unified, clear messages and a determination to get them across.
