Sentence examples for of chump from inspiring English sources

It's kind of chump change.

The unfortunately-named Champ Car series – always makes me think of "chump" or "chimp" – begins its first race this weekend, and for the moment, Sebastien Bourdais is picking up where he left off.

When she did talk to the press, she presented herself as an ordinary housewife and mother with no greater concern than whether the butcher had run out of chump chops.

But Sidney is a sentimentalist, the kind of chump who keeps his old, shopworn dancers on the books and puts up a big finder's fee when his stepfather, Gunther Fahnstiel, a retired cop, slips out of his nursing home to wander the streets on an urgent errand he can't quite remember.

History of Now: The Story of the Noughties (BBC2) is to clips'n'chumps what Maestro was to reality, with a better class of chump: John Lanchester and Will Self, Andrew Marr, Suzanne Moore, a "human geographer" from Sheffield University, a sociologist at Bedfordshire University, about half of my colleagues here at the Guardian, and a lady from Demos think tank.

Instinctively, you just assume that the guy they've picked, who is a member who has just sauntered out of the clubhouse at late notice, is going to look a bit of chump when he's being made to play alongside the current Masters champion.

He called them, he said, "a bunch of chumps".

In other words, nowadays only the activities of chumps fall under the jurisdiction of the police.

The subsequent Third Battle of Chumps was a German rout, celebrated every November 12th in Canada as a smashing triumph of fair play.

I can't help but notice that Chait's list of chumps is basically the same as the list of people who puffed up Paul Ryan and gave him an award for fiscal responsibility.

In the churning, semi-fictionalised world of European politics, the photo op is the one reassuring task for a constantly changing roster of chumps who don't even recognise one another.