bear-pit

I can understand why the Catalans of Perpignan want to play in their capital but having to give up the bear-pit advantage they get from the Stade Aimé-Giral may just tip the scales too far while Toulouse seem to be able to play anywhere when the occasion demands.

Heineken Cup quarter-finals will have Europe on the move | Shaun Edwards 2011

They hung over the railing of the bear-pit, shivering at the huge and lonely denizen, and passed quickly on to ten minutes of laughter at the monkey cage.

CHAPTER II 2010

Perhaps that was understandable with three of the first-choice back four out but it did seem a waste of the bear-pit atmosphere.

Bosnia aim to get it pitch perfect against Portugal | Jonathan Wilson 2011

It was a bear-pit: people pouring beer on the acts, paper aeroplanes flying around.

Portrait of the artist: Frank Skinner, comedian 2011

I cannot think of any of our Prime Ministers of the television age who has presented such a sorry and sad picture in the weekly bear-pit that is PMQs.

Archive 2007-11-18 2007

Clearly, we're drinking in the Flight of Fancy Saloon here, but while we're at it, let's imagine a politics in which it actually became difficult to pass legislation at all and parliament became a baying bear-pit which actually reflected the disputatious, bloody-minded, frequently absurd voters that elect the damn thing in the first place.

If politics were more like the internet... that would be a good thing 2009

Clearly, we're drinking in the Flight of Fancy Saloon here, but while we're at it, let's imagine a politics in which it actually became difficult to pass legislation at all and parliament became a baying bear-pit which actually reflected the disputatious, bloody-minded, frequently absurd voters that elect the damn thing in the first place.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

I cannot think of any of our Prime Ministers of the television age who has presented such a sorry and sad picture in the weekly bear-pit that is PMQs.

McBlackadder The Dancing Bear 2007

The method, developed by Klein Dytham Architects in Tokyo puts twelve speakers in a bear-pit theatre with only 20 slides for 20 seconds each for a six minute and 20 second total.

PECHA KUCHA LONDON | Inhabitat 2006

So of course, Canadians have their own words and Barber has a section on each: Peace, Order and Good Government (drop the writ and bear-pit session); weather is a subsection in the chapter A Country With Too Much Geography; and For the Love of the Game (pond hockey and puckster).

Archive 2007-07-01 2007