off-the-peg

Definitions

Examples

• France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.

• Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

• Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

• Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

• A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

• Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

• A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

• He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.

• You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.

• Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.