Sentence examples for cock thing from inspiring English sources
Two CEOs and a chairman down in 18 months, a £263 million accounting black hole, its market value now halved since the start of the year, a Serious Fraud Office probe on the way, the buttermilk cock thing, and also: this woman, who apparently found a "white jelly-like object" in her bottle of vinegar, which is quite bad.
"Hopefully no one will say too much to you guys [the media] to cock things up".
This paradox united several of the nation's favourite themes: the absurd caprices of bureaucracy; a sense that Britain somehow manages to cock things up that other countries do not; and rain.The other main subject has been the Olympic games.
Left to their own devices, the media can cock things up royally.
To Nigel Farndale from The Telegraph, he testified "Stoppardian for me means the ability to cock things up".
I was so keen for a girlfriend but seemed to always cock things up and not take my chances.
But despite all these agenda-setting handicaps, the astonishing thing about Corbyn is that he's managing to cock things up entirely on his own terms.
He's stayed relatively quiet after his run on Dragons' Den came to an end, but has been in the news this year for being appointed as David Cameron's social mobility tsar, only to cock things up by imploring parents not to help their children find work when he'd personally hired his daughters on more than one occasion.
We need to get this ball-cock thing taken care of once and for all".
Costello congratulates Mike, who says, "That ball-cock thing fucked you up".
The margin for error is appreciable, but there is precedent for a team cocking things up in such a situation - and inevitably, that precedent involves England.
