The Czech public has regularly been treated to the sight of MPs, officials and businessmen being led away from luxury villas or government offices, jackets placed diplomatically over handcuffs, for the past few years.
She smiles, but just barely, cradling a hard hat in her home office, her jacket emblazoned with a Jones & Laughlin insignia.
I suppose it's the job of any author of crime fiction--to see the loose screw on the airplane, the off-kilter gas truck, the meticulously groomed gentleman in line at the post office whose jacket is bulky and his smile screwed on a little too tight.
Mr. Blistan, a jolly man of 64 with a big office, a lavender jacket and a dirty maroon tie, said the mine was running down under the Communists.
Most of us prefer the certainties of an older world: as a cub reporter in Sheffield I was told off for appearing in the office without a jacket - even though I was wearing a tie, mind - on a hot day like one of those last week.
Mr. Silver said he had received a 30percentt deposit from the store but was left with an office full of jackets and sweaters.
According to Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times, the capital "flew into a bit of a tizzy" when your first photographs in the Oval Office showed you jacket-free and not so buttoned-up as the last President.
Most self-employed dream of turning up at an office and putting a jacket over a chair, knowing that jacket will be picking up a tidy sum just by saying that you're there.
She's dressed for the office: cream blouse, charcoal jacket and trousers, hair scraped back.
Noting that Clinton was alone for a moment in Panetta's office, she lifted her jacket and gave the president a quick glance at the top of her thong underwear, which showed above the waist of her pants.
