The phrase 'a stinker of' is not typically used in written English.
If you were to use it in a sentence, you would generally only use it in an informal context. For example, you might say, "That was a stinker of a joke!".
Even as the industry leader in sales incentives -- 24 percent off the already routinely ignored sticker price -- Cobalt sales fell 53 percent through November 2010 from the period a year earlier (which was also a stinker of a sales year).
Murray then produces a stinker of a forehand into the net to make it 0-30.
As Mish puts it plainly: " Presumptive is a stinker of a word".
To be fair, it was a stinker of a draw for Kvitova, a real banana skin.
"It's a stinker of a district," Elizabeth Spinzia, the Rhinebeck town supervisor, told me.
"But I also don't want to get myself so amped up that I play a stinker of a match.
CAV has some video from the upcoming Ubisoft Lost game, which I suspect will be a stinker on the level of TMNT for the NES.
The latter, by the way, was difficult in that I personally feel this year has been somewhat of a stinker for movies.
The 1983-87 Renault Alliance was the Pepé Le Pew of subcompacts, a stinker born of Renault's short-lived alliance — hence the name — with American Motors.
The thing about Friday's match is that some of us old hands who have been around the World Cup a bit have seen it before — the old Czechoslovakia and Austria thumping the boy soldiers from America in 1990, Jens Jeremies of Germany belting Claudio Reyna in the kidneys in the opening minutes of 1998, a stinker to Poland in 2002 and then a clunker to the Czech Republic in 2006.
November had been a complete stinker of a month.
