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  • Obama and his clothes-horse wife are a joke. dubya

    Clinton: Vetting process for administration jobs 'a nightmare' 2009

  • Rising fantasy queen du jour Gemma Arterton bags herself a far better role than the plot-explaining clothes-horse she played in the recent dismal Clash of the Titans remake, while "Sir" Ben Kingsley simply dusts of his dastardly baldie performance from Thunderbirds with scenery-chewing results.

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2010

  • * Lucas Davenport is a known clothes-horse; did you notice any special fashion references?

    John Sandford Book Tour: Review and Giveaway Featuring "Secret Prey" 2010

  • I would guess he resents that she (a bimbo clothes-horse) is a cabinet minister, and he is not, so he would love this story

    Dale Is Hamilton-Miller Newmania 2008

  • I don't care to be told that I resemble royalty; it wakes too many unpleasant memories, and in the case of Franz-Josef it was downright foolish, for while he cut a fairish figure, tall, dark and well-moustached and whiskered, he had no more style than a clothes-horse - and I ain't got a Hapsburg lip or the stare of a backward haddock.

    Watershed 2010

  • I would guess he resents that she (a bimbo clothes-horse) is a cabinet minister, and he is not, so he would love this story

    Archive 2008-01-01 Newmania 2008

  • * Lucas Davenport is a known clothes-horse; did you notice any special fashion references?

    Archive 2010-05-01 2010

  • I would guess he resents that she (a bimbo clothes-horse) is a cabinet minister, and he is not, so he would love this story

    Archive 2008-01-06 Newmania 2008

  • The clothes-horse hangar is so bright it could be the light at the end of the tunnel seen during a near-death experience.

    Thelma Adams: Sex and The City Jumps the Shark 2008

  • Which is somewhat ironic since I am a clothes-horse.

    My dirty laundry @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy 2006

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