While their newspapers this week brashly campaigned against the "Richetty Grub" (complete with a cartoon depiction of Richie McCaw as a grub-like nuisance at the bottom of a ruck), ours offer a more dignified appraisal.
As befits a Grub Street denizen, Edward Pearce has added to this revival with his deftly crafted account of "Sir Blue-String, Bob Bootyty", "Pillage", "Flimnap", the "Skreenmaster General" himself, Sir Robert Walpole.
In 2005, the historian Hallie Rubenhold suggested that Samuel Derrick, an Irish writer variously described as a "drunken poet," a "Grub Street hack," and "notoriously dirty and smelly," was the original author.
In 2005, the historian Hallie Rubenhold suggested that Samuel Derrick, an Irish writer variously described as a "drunken poet," a "Grub Street hack," and "notoriously dirty and smelly," was the original author.
This equals about 4000 to 10,000 white grubs per hectare at site M and 4000 to 35,000 at site N, a pest level that can lead to significant yield loss as a single grub usually destroys at least one planted tuber.
Our Thanksgiving instincts are to plop as much grub in front of us as possible.
Underhanded tactics are nothing new in this election — Santorum was quick to point out that Romney's campaign had employed robo-callers in other states — but the revelation enabled Romney to portray his rival as a vote-grubbing hypocrite.
Johnson began his literary career as a minor Grub Street hack writer, but he went on to make lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
Lest Idaho take all the glory, there was just as much good grub and quality suds on the other side of the border.
You could describe what it does as gutsy pub grub, but that rather underplays the slickness and fastidiousness of what appears on the plate.
They fished in the rivers with bows and arrows, dams, and nets and harvested wild fruits and other plants, as well as grubs.
