Sentence examples for awkward customers from inspiring English sources

Sean Dyche, who remains a manager of rich potential despite last season's relegation, set them up to be "awkward customers".

Differences in cultural background may lead to gaffes; socially awkward customers, who find interacting with people tough at the best of times, may now have to worry about making the right impression on salespeople.

She can be an awkward customer.

And sidelining one awkward customer hasn't changed that.

It has been an awkward customer in cricket politics for a while.

In some Wessex circles Buckland may be regarded as an awkward customer.

Walter Wolfgang is an awkward customer – so awkward he should get an awkwardly shaped gold watch from the Awkward Squad for half a century's loyal service.

A good manager would have realised what was happening and neutralised this awkward customer with charm and a complimentary digestif.

"He's an awkward customer, more interested in himself than solving the crisis," one European Union official in Brussels said on the condition of anonymity.

Syria has long been an awkward customer: a smallish, militarily weak country with no resources to speak of but with a disproportionate ability to annoy.

Dyche signed the 25-year-old from Brighton in January, and he said: "He keeps going, he's an awkward customer.