Sentence examples for a stick up from inspiring English sources

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Normally, the big toe curls downward when the examiner draws a stick up the sole of the foot.

Meanwhile the Alex Lambie, the boss of Welsh Power has written to the energy minister, Malcolm Wickes, calling the EDF/British Energy tie-up "a stick up at the expense of the UK's electricity customers".

He'd pick a stick up from the ground, snap it in two and draw a map in the sand, of a secret river he was sure lived beneath the sea.

From his two months in the north, one image stayed with him above all others; a pale young woman "with the usual draggled, exhausted look … I thought how dreadful a destiny it was to be kneeling in the gutter in a back alley in Wigan, in the bitter cold, prodding a stick up a blocked drain.

What is it about British comedy that threatens you so? DC: Dave, no disrespect but I think you're thinking of Michael Moore, he's had a stick up his arse about so-called "British comedy" since he lost the Perrier Award in Edinburgh to Michael Apted (although that was me who threw a can of Bud at Billy Connolly. I thought he was terrible on Head Of The Class, and I let him know it).

I can have a hyperlink in the text "AT&T has a stick up its collective ass" and there's nothing you can do about it.

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He probably thought she was a "stuck up ho with too many stretch marks".

Next he calls Miles a "stuck up art pussy" and then goes and chain-smokes in a dark alley, in the rain.

No one wants a stuck up parent.

Nobody likes a stuck up person.

It makes you disrespectful and you look like a stuck up pseudo-intellectual.

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