Sentence examples similar to class bookie from inspiring English sources
He tells her about two boys from opposite sides of the class divide — Kevin's father was a bookie and his mother took in lodgers, while Gerald was a child of privilege — who began to be confused with each other when they were about 13 and a bus driver swatted Kevin on the ear because Gerald had once skipped off without paying.
He has never forgotten his Manchester working-class roots as the son of a bookie.
This book is representative of Runyon's style in its use of an exaggerated version of local idiom to portray a particular class of characters gamblers, promoters, fight managers, race-track bookies, and other habitués of the street.
O'Toole was brought up in wartime Leeds with an Irish bookie father ('I'm not working-class,' the self-described 'slum Mick' once said, 'I come from the criminal classes.'); but he was not on stage to flaunt his lower-class roots, and on film he lived up to the aristocracy of his breathtaking looks.
Ms. O'Connor came from a working-class family in San Diego, one of 13 children of a part-time bookie.
Of course, sometimes the bookies are wrong.
To give you an idea of just how autres those temps were, I wrote about the high street bookies as a place of social interaction with no regard for race, creed, colour, class, or even age difference; where men and the occasional woman would happily bond over a narrowly beaten second-favourite, or historic tales of ante-post derring-do.
Beloved husband of Barbara (Bookie).
The Bookie, 206 Burnside Ave., East Hartford., East Hartford
