flack

• “Pardon my language but how in the flickitty-flack is choking and punching someone after you threaten to kill them a “mistake?””

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• “Back in April, the Department of Homeland Security caught a lot of flack from the right wing for issuing the memo that warned of "lone wolves" from both the extreme left and the right committing acts of terror just like this.”

  Holocaust Museum Terrorism

• “Now I am probably going to catch a lot of flack from the pseudo-EMO crowd that follows these novels like a bevy of groveling lemmings.”

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• ““In fact, we got flack from the studio one day, because we shot nine rolls of film of just Sharlto in this one scene; he just kept going and going and going!””

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• “If Mr. Obama is catching the requisite flack from the right, he's also getting it from the left, and it's not just over economics.”

  So Much for That

• “However, I thought you might be interested in one of the most obnoxious articles on the topic ever, from MacLean's (Canada's newsweekly) -- basically, the article quotes some flack from the plastic bag industry protesting Toronto's bag charge on the grounds that bags are only a small part of the ocean's trash, and therefore we shouldn't expend our efforts there but fight other plastics instead.”

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• “With today's Federal Communications Commission members taking regular flack from the television industry for being too deferential to the big telecom companies in areas such as spectrum allocation, it's easy to forget that the FCC has been staffed by people more sympathetic to broadcaster concerns.”

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• “He never gave a media interview, telling an overeager label flack: "It's better that way; when I talk, it's rubbish.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Disappearing Maestro

• “The reason I think this will get some flack is because often people cannot distinguish a story that stands on its own from a criticism on their beliefs.”

  ...um, Hellboy? Witches? Conan?

• “Like some of the others who've commented, I got a lot of flack from a certain family member about staying home before the children came.”

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