clod-hopping

It wasn't a perfect episode – the revelation that Larry was not a Sully Sullenberger-style hero of the skies was handled in disappointingly clod-hopping fashion – but the sudden appearances of the eavesdropping waiter were very nicely done, and there were enjoyably surreal moments, such as Larry's dining table companion telling him: When I first saw you, I guessed you for a Spaniard.

Curb your Enthusiasm – season eight, episode six 2011

Their website flings up a single page, containing mainly a bunch of gifs taking a malign swing at the Lib Dems with sub-gutter journalism accuracy and clod-hopping wit.

The Whine Of The Wealth Creators (Warning: Political Rant) « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2010

It is not "libertarian paternalism", it is not a kind and gentle authoritarianism, it is clod-hopping idiocy.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

When the bell rung, out flooded big girls and boys of every color, style, and age imaginable and I remember I just could not wait to join them and be totally cool with a new-wave hair-do and black and white tights in thick black clod-hopping combat boots.

Esther J. Cepeda: Economic Tier Scheme for CPS Selective Enrollment Schools: Go Back to the Drawing Board 2009

From the wikipedia page on Primeval episodesI note with trepidation that the writer of the last episode of the season is the guy who penned the clod-hopping idiocies of the 1st, to whit one Steve Bailie.

Primeval Season 3: A Brief Summation « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

Yes folks even my clod-hopping, Olympic fixated neighbors know we now live in a "commie" i. e. totalitarian society.

Archive 2008-08-01 Michael Caddell 2008

They could have, for example, asked for permission or tried to negotiate instead of sending clod-hopping lawyers in.

Wyrd Sisters take on Warner 2005

Although athletic, he was a small boy, lost in the clod-hopping melee of the soccer field, where he could be found contemplating the clouds more often than kicking at the ball.

How to Raise a Hunter 2005

Mr. Milliken what I please; but not YOU, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy.

The Wolves and the Lamb 2006

How often do you read an opening paragraph which links those two gentlemen, unless a particularly cumbersome and clod-hopping form of irony is intended?

It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity... 2006