toad-in-the-hole

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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.

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

• 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.

• Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"

• Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.

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

• Squinty, several times, looked at the hole under the pen, by which he had once gotten out.

• Madame and myself had just been regretting that we should have to pass the evening in this miserable hole of a town.