Sentence examples for stiff of a from inspiring English sources
Leeds defended gamely and denied Newscastle a stiff of a try, but Richards' side go on to meet Bedford who do not qualify for promotion because their ground at Goldington Road does not meet Premiership standards.
On a recent visit, a guidebook-toting father and two teenage sons were exclaiming in disbelief over the price (stiff) of a set of rare 1940s paper cigarette box buttons.
He's scared stiff of a challenge by these Republicans to his House speakership position.
Men seethe, mortified, less from having been stiffed of a day's wages than from being too afraid to file a complaint.
"Most of them are scared stiff of the president," a top Romney bundler on Wall Street told me recently.
It is not a very good idea to take a girl who is scared stiff of the heights to a skiing resort.
Cooper, though, maintained the stiff formality of a news interviewer.
Jacobi has concluded that the abundance of phallic symbols in the painting – a stiff thrust of a leg, a nutcracker, a shadow from a groin – was completely deliberate.
Traced in piping on a cream evening cape or embossed on the stiff skirt of a wool day dress, these patterns are gutsy.
She knocked on the stiff chest of a Batman costume ("Oooh!") and wandered in search of something bat-like to fit her.
Like the stiff springing of a new Swiss Army knife blade, you know this equipment is made to wear in and endure grubby conditions.
