slant-in

Definitions

Examples

• This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

• Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

• Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”

• The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.

• But those weapons are of limited utility, especially during close-in fights.

• Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!

• The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.

• So far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.

• Their jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.

• But the novel disappeared under the clothes with amazing celerity as the voice of her sister-in-law demanded admission.