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Tetchy like a man holding a hammer and a palmful of fresh teeth, tetchy like someone being conned into a Monte.
'Free' healthcare? That has to be the greatest oxymoron of our age | AL Kennedy 2011
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Did you see his bolshy apprentice 'Tetchy Tony Nutter McNulty on the box last night.
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What most disheartened me last night was when the Doughboy and Tetchy both proclaimed how they were going to stay and 'sort the mess out' ........
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Tetchy and quarrelsome, staccato in action, the warriors of a colony bury their forceps in the skin and stand upon their heads to give all their weight to the attack; but each individual retains its grip until squashed and crumpled up, and the human being who has suffered the assault comments on it in language corresponding with the sensitiveness or otherwise of his skin.
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Nothing had ever so melted down the rude stiffness of the Tetchy family as this wonderful revolution in my domestic prospects.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various
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Tetchy and quarrelsome, staccato in action, the warriors of a colony bury their forceps in the skin and stand upon their heads to give all their weight to the attack; but each individual retains its grip until squashed and crumpled up, and the human being who has suffered the assault comments on it in language corresponding with the sensitiveness or otherwise of his skin.
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Tetchy relations in the Lords, which were a feature of the debate that lasted from 3.48pm on Monday until 12.51pm on Tuesday, reached a low yesterday evening after Lib Dem Lord Thomas of Gresford moved a motion that cut short debate on an amendment.
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Tetchy when he was asked about alcohol, there was nonetheless a tacit admittance of his sins.
The Guardian World News Sid Lowe 2010
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Tetchy when he was asked about alcohol, there was nonetheless a tacit admittance of his sins.
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Tetchy when he was asked about alcohol, there was nonetheless a tacit admittance of his sins.
The Guardian World News Sid Lowe 2010
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