Sentence examples for canny time from inspiring English sources
To me though, in the seventies, the upraised fists and tannoyed cries of "Comrade" on the playing fields simply meant a great many people having a canny time.
It's certainly canny timing.
Marriage-equality advocates ran a canny campaign this time round, emphasizing rosy images of domestic bliss over explicit demands for equal rights.
Davis hesitated, clearly unsure of whether to dignify the question with an answer, during which time canny Cameron nipped in with the people-pleasing answer, "boxers".
His licence fee settlement, which seemed canny at the time, burdened the BBC with the World Service, which, together with the broadband rollout and the Welsh language commitment was more government policy than a BBC remit.
He was clever, canny and at times charismatic, his political views based on the conviction that he was always right.
He really was the Job's bollocks when it came to wringing the tech egos of Silicon Valley, but canny New York Times reporter Brad Stone did some digging and then compared his writing to that of Forbes' tech editor Daniel Lyons.
"I was canny enough at the time to realise that the flat Manchester accent makes comedy funnier and drama more intense," says Warren.
It is a canny message at a time when trust in the European Union and its institutions is dwindling across the 28-nation alliance, and it is telling that most of the gloating at the No vote came from Eurosceptics like Nigel Farage of Ukip and France's far-right leader, Marine le Pen.
The canny editing keeps two time tracks running in parallel the long route of the couple's entire lives and the short jaunt of the endgame of old age to evoke a disturbed and tangled yet romantically exalted tale of love thwarted and savored.
