frogmarch

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Ours says that whoever can frogmarch a majority of placemen through the lobbies of the House of Commons can do whatever he pleases.

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  1. to march a person against his will by any method.

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  • Tiffany was dragged from the sofa and even though her legs were like jelly she allowed him to frogmarch her from Carole's flat. —  faceless
  • Ours says that whoever can frogmarch a majority of placemen through the lobbies of the House of Commons can do whatever he pleases. —  Attack the System
  • Orange-jacketed stewards scrambled to confiscate this brazen example of thought crime at the "Theatre of Dreams" and frogmarch the dissidents out of the ground. —  The Guardian World News
  • It's safe to say that Josh T Pearson's decision to come onstage to 'Killing In The Name Of' has thankfully fuck all to do with the embarrassing chart pantomime playing out at the moment, but it's a pretty apt introduction for the grizzly one whose lack of willing to conform has seen him eschew recording a much hankered-after album (and spurn the kind offers of those who offer to frogmarch him to the hi-tech Butlins recording studio to finally lay one down) and patent a prickly live demeanour. —  The Line Of Best Fit
  • Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top frogmarch (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-24-08 08: 55 PM —  ClearysNoteBook
 

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