Sentence examples for dead donkey from inspiring English sources
noun
In journalistic jargon, a news item of no real significance, usually of whimsical or sentimental nature, placed at the end of a news bulletin or in a newspaper as filler. A dead donkey can often be removed from the programme or publication if a more significant story needs extra time or space.
P14 Obituary: Drop the Dead Donkey actor David Swift.
We came up with Drop the Dead Donkey after doing some research at BBC News.
This is Hamilton and Jenkin's first sitcom collaboration since Drop the Dead Donkey ended in 1998.
I had a schoolfriend whose career amounts to Ballykissangel, Hollyoaks, and a one-off appearance in Drop the Dead Donkey.
Former Drop the Dead Donkey writer and veteran standup Nick Revell has been playing Jongleurs since the beginning.
It takes the form of two dead donkeys laid out on the strings of grand pianos.
The Florentines surely almost surely)arrived at the notion that dead donkeys might cause a plague among the Sienese because dead donkeys were already causing a plague among the Florentines.
Gabriel Figueroa's sharp monochrome cinematography perfectly echoes Buñuel's frankness, and the wild touches - eyeballs sliced with razor blades, dead donkeys on a piano - that marked his early work are notably absent.
Apparently, during the war between Siena & Florence in the middle of the 13th century, the Florentines attempted to start a plague in Siena by catapulting dead donkeys over the city walls..
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