Sentence examples for gate lice from inspiring English sources
A group of passengers — these people are known derisively as "gate lice" to frequent fliers — is surging toward the door anyway, jockeying for position in imaginary lines.
In the airline industry, for example, employees have a rich vocabulary to describe passengers that behave inappropriately, starting with the simple word "pax" (an abbreviation of passengers) and ranging to the derogatory term "gate lice" for inexperienced air travelers making rookie mistakes.
The study on misconduct, which was done by the Rand Institute on its own after the consulting contract for broader study with the Police Depart ment expired, has been made available to the city's Knapp Commission, which is investi gating corruption and the po lice.
After her novel The God of Small Things started selling in vast numbers, she says, "I watched as the cars grew slicker, the gates grew higher and the poor were stuffed like lice into the crevices of the city.
Hemingway was six weeks old and covered in lice when he was found this past spring, having been left at Farm Sanctuary's front gate.
