Sentence examples for down the Swanee from inspiring English sources
The investors were losing millions, everything was going down the Swanee and even the most gung-ho owners knew something had to be done to stop the bleeding.
How many times have you read about some age-old manufacturer and thousands of jobs going down the swanee, while ministers wrung their hands over European state aid rules?
It's been a disaster for left-wing politics in this country, enabling big business to bus in swathes of slave labour from Eastern Europe and then accuse the indigenous workers whose wages were going down the Swanee of being racist if they didn't just knuckle under and accept it.
An affronted octogenarian grabs me and punctuates every syllable of her mistrust with a bony digit to the arm, denouncing me as an "idealist who is leading us all down the Swanee" – the face of evil forcing Standard Life to leave.
At the talk, Ek faced accusations of selling the CD industry down the Swanee.
His first words into the microphone – "I'll try but it won't be easy" – came out all wobbly, his voice careering up and down the chromatic scale like a Swanee whistle.
It was "It's Slumbertime Along the Swanee," not "It's Slumbertime Down South".
One critic wrote that she was "more a serpent of the Swanee than of the Nile"; another famously quipped, "Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra — and sank".
The group also performed as the Swanee Quintet and the Jericho Boys.
This includes The Clangers scripts, which were all written out and then "played" on the swanee whistle.
