Sentence examples for chump at from inspiring English sources

The closest you yourself can get to this contrast is in "A Chump at Oxford".

He was grand but he was a chump at the same time.

Confusion: Stan Stan Laurell) and a ghost (Eddie Borden) in "A Chump At Oxford" (1940).

Dazzled by the sight of her in a white dress, some chump at Penguin gave her several buckets of cash to write a book about pass the parcel.

For instance, not one single person has ever attempted to stab me to death with a pickaxe mid-coitus, like Sharon Stone did to that poor chump at the start of Basic Instinct.

Their best full-length comedies include Fra Diavolo (1933; also released as The Devil's Brother), Babes in Toyland (1934, rereleased as March of the Wooden Soldiers), Our Relations (1936), Block-Heads (1938), A Chump at Oxford (1940), and the two features generally regarded as their finest, Sons of the Desert (1933) and Way Out West (1937).

The headlines from the Labour party conference may have been about the "chumps" at the Sun, about "fighters not quitters", about real social democratic analysis of the economic crisis, as rightwing market fundamentalism was attacked.

It'll be just like last year when you guys helped us beat out the faux adventurers at National Geographic and those chumps at the Times with their dumb ol' expose on toxic tap water.

Not exactly chump change — not at all.

That's chump change over at the Chamber.

Intel IPO'd at $6.8M, chump change by today's standards.