Sentence examples for turned down flat from inspiring English sources

But my (very difficult, as it turned out) second novel was turned down flat.

United have seen them given for less, but Boro were turned down flat.

Here again, was the kind of career-spiking opportunity that Paper Boi would've turned down flat.

"We've offered him a new, lucrative deal but it was turned down flat".

That led to approaches from the newspapers, which Rowley has turned down flat.

Mannesmann had wanted to bid on several cable properties, but was turned down flat.

So it is that, this autumn, a multi-millionaire will put on the bestseller agenda the kind of subject that smart agents-and-executives-who-lunch would otherwise turn down flat with a "worthy but dull" sneer.

The past few days have turned America's extraordinary presidential election contest into a legal rollercoaster.On Monday December 4th a state-court judge in Florida seemed to hand almost certain victory to George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, by turning down flat the request by Al Gore, the Democratic candidate, for the counting of votes not recorded by machines in many Florida counties.

He asked the British Foreign Secretary and the Foreign Ministers of France and the U.S. not to turn down flat the Russian's suggestion for a four-power conference, because the only alternative he could see to a new and vigorous approach was a steady drift toward war-- the ultimate failure of foreign policy".

When he asks his corporate bosses for a share of gross profits, 'the proposal was turned down as flat as Twiggy's chest'.

And, weirdly, just that weekend her brother and her sister-in-law – who'd been searching for a flat in that exact area for months to no avail – had turned down even viewing Dennis' flat because of the connotations.