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I'm so not looking forward to this winter, and it's not just because we've had such a lousy summer that it feels like we've gone straight from spring to autumn with nothing in between.
This has been a lousy summer, I know, but all those clouds have left us with one silver lining.
— Jeff Gordinier Poetry Foundation: "It's been a lousy summer sucking us dry," writes Bruce Covey in a poem that might or might not be about chicken soup.
Even though you might think to yourself it has been a lousy summer, temperatures have been above average – we had a heatwave in June with temperatures over 30 degrees, and don't forget that Wimbledon had a virtually rain-free fortnight.
If you like music and sunshine, and Kygo's remix of "Sexual Healing" wasn't on your summer playlist, then you probably had a lousy summer.
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Imposture by Benjamin Markovits 234pp, Faber, £10.99 During the lousy summer of 1816, Byron was holed up in a villa overlooking Lake Geneva with his lover, Clare Clairmont, his friends Percy and Mary Shelley, and his 19-year-old doctor John Polidori.
The government's case got less lousy last week.
"It might help sales that the Giants are lousy this year".
The economy was lousy in 1982, and it's lousy today, at least for the people who appear in Springsteen songs.
There followed a lousy Christmas season for high-street fixtures like Argos, a catalogue chain, Mothercare, a baby clothier, and Thorntons, a chocolate maker.
It may have been a good summer for trees, but for the tree salesman, it's shaping up as a lousy winter.
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