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The poor lad can't win.
But the poor lad was a wreck.
And it got worse for the poor lad.
The poor lad is guilty of nothing more than innocent clumsiness, rather than deliberate foul play.
I am feeling a bit sick knowing that the poor lad has passed.
The poor lad made a split-second error and my heart bleeds for him.
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If you want to bond with your colleagues without picking on the poor lads in IT support, try to encourage a little whinging on the subject of your bosses instead - they earn far more money than you for doing far less work.
Tearing down the iPod Shuffle may look easy – it is, after all, made of a few pieces of aluminium press-fitted and glued together – but the poor lads at iFixIt had a dickens of a time.
"That was when this poor lad was making his debut, so I don't know how he felt about that.
Why did you do that to that poor lad?" I shrugged my shoulders and apologized to them for letting them down.
Once, I was at a pub in Covent Garden when a crowd gathered around me. "I just saw you on television, why did you do that to that poor lad?" I shrugged my shoulders and apologized to them for letting them down.
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