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• “And I certainly don’t get why a risk of toddler-esque strops is enough to stop you using your power of arrest.”

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• “The glamour girl has thrown a number of "strops" since Tuesday's ceremony in Las Vegas, ranting at hotel staff, her TV crew and Reid himself, according to The Sun.”

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• “April 24 was a typical day: "We spent the morning fixing up 'strops' for the wireless masts.”

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• “Chelsea bores her, so she takes a private jet to Cannes, gets Katie Price's hairdresser to titivate her, hires a table in a VVIP room for £20k, then strops off home after 20 minutes as someone appears in the room who's not to her suiting.”

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• “Consider their track record – the bitchiness, the emotionalism, the strops that feel far more frequent than once a month, the tendency to sleep their way to the bottom … It was a nice idea, but I fear Football Man's experiment in "having it all" has ended in ignominy.”

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• “Brother strops his hand in his lap every time a locust exoskeleton breaks on the windshield, irregular beats, but often.”

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• “But you don't have to wear a woggle and neckerchief while tying 76 types of knots and helping old ladies across camp fires, or something, to know that that doesn't apply when the team's manager strops off into the sunset just five days before the start of the new season, leaving the club's plans in a bigger mess than the Gulf of Mexico.”

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• “The Bulgarian produced the first of this season's strops when he was ignored by Obertan as the French winger raced clear on goal thanks to a measured pass from Rafael.”

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• “What I am using here is not quite a standard contract as I have worked with this publisher before and argued with them, so my contracts are now tailored to accommodate the results of previous strops.”

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• “They tried to deploy the liferafts but were unable to do so, as the previous owner had tied them down with wire strops to prevent them from being stolen.”

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