Sentence examples for wide boy from inspiring English sources
noun
A man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing.
A wide boy hops beds, while a bald boy whimpers and turns ugly.
Sullivan's idea was to write a sitcom based around a "wide boy" fly-pitcher, who sold just about everything, without a regular stall.
The message both receive is that the "authorities" who oversee a deeply flawed system are rewarded with fat cat salaries befitting a City wide boy.
Alhough he protested that he was neither a pornographer nor a crook, he was dismissed by the more august sections of the media as a deluxe wide boy.
Michael Maddox comes across as a wide boy who wangled a job tutoring Pavel I, Empress Catherine's son, by falsely claiming a degree from Oxford.
"He was a wide boy, a character who played to the media and loved the lifestyle," said one club steward patrolling Trinity Road before kick-off.
David the wide-eyed boy, the recording angel, is entirely acceptable.
Her oldest son, a wide-eyed boy of 8, clung to her sleeve and refused to speak.
When he leaves on a business trip, Vincent stays behind to look after Jessie and her quiet, wide-eyed boy.
Don't forget the surrogate for this PG-13 picture's presumptive audience, a wide-eyed boy whom you half expect to cry out for Shane.
James Cooney is superb as Greg, a wide-eyed boy who experiences the worst and loses his childhood and hope in a single day.
