barber-surgeon

Definitions

Examples

• “As far as we were aware, and as far as the surgeon was aware, the surgery was a go,” Shaheen sighs.

• Althea is now re-scheduled with her surgeon for this spring.

• The new surgeon general certainly has his work cut out for him.

• My surgeon told me my bones were so soft he could barely install the screws.

• Strange was a surgeon who lost the use of his hands in an automobile accident.

• One party shall provide a surgeon, the other a pair of ordinary cavalry sabres.

• He said he didn't want his family fidgeting him, and the surgeon said he would be all right in a few days.

• They were followed by a little dried-up Italian army surgeon, who carried under his arm an ominous-looking black case.

• For about thirty feet from the ground this was painted in coloured stripes very much like a barber's pole.

• A barber having a dispute with a parish clerk on a point of grammar, the latter said it was a downright barbarism, indeed.