Charles Spencer, writing in The Telegraph about a production at the Young Vic in 2008, called the play "an utter stinker" with "glib Marxist sermonising". Obviously, I don't agree, though I think Brecht sets up a straw man of goodness – a "Saint Never-to-Be," as one of one of the characters sings.
Put half your money with a genius who makes 40%, half with a stinker who loses 40%, and you'll break even but still owe a fat performance fee to one of these guys.
Sabathia capped it off with a stinker.
WrestleMania IX: A pretty bad WrestleMania, by all accounts, with a stinker of a match between The Undertaker and Giant Gonzalez being the main dud.
Hughes, a 22-year-old right-hander, followed up with a stinker reminiscent of last season, facing 16 batters, and retiring only 5.
The result was his last opera, Oberon, all too rarely performed because Kemble saddled Weber with a stinker of a libretto from his illiterate stage-manager, JR Planché.
By W. Mrs. Vaugh and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, June 17 , 1950 P. 20Incidental Intelligence: The management of the Strand Theatre in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, displays this sign on its marquee: "All the new Pix, with a stinker now and then".
For all its benefits, automation still needs context on which to base decisions; it can get stuck if faced with a stinker of a curve ball.
So, while it is tempting to dismiss his first day of Test cricket as a bit of a stinker, we should bear with him and give him a chance to put things right.
He had a stinker in his day job, with the ball - yet he might be Man of the Match for an immense 56 not out from 168 balls.
