have-a-go

Some of the situations and people strike a familiar chord: the have-a-go hero is out of Man of the Moment and the security man is a replica of Harvey in Season's Greetings.

Neighbourhood Watch – review 2011

If Danny Cipriani were Australian, you suspect the have-a-go culture would suit him too.

Australia underline the many failings of Martin Johnson's England set-up Robert Kitson in Perth 2010

Innocent have-a-go hero in cells for ten hours - As a former traffic warden and store detective with two police commendations to her name, Wendy Challis-Jones is all too familiar with tackling lawbreakers.

Waterloo Sunset « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

Some students are prepared to "have-a-go" without teacher help.

Google Tells Students to: "Major in Learning" 2008

But the have-a-go hero was then arrested himself when officers spotted a rusty truncheon he had put in his pocket for self-defence.

Archive 2008-06-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

British people are the least likely in Europe to be "have-a-go heroes" and get involved if they witness a crime, research from a think tank claims.

Archive 2008-09-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

Now she is reported by by-standers in York for brutally punching a petty thief to the ground, she is arrested and investigated, and she becomes a Conservative Party have-a-go poster girl.

Con-Watch: Sticking Plaster and Law-and-Order Policy 2008

And will there be another anecdote as bizarre as Dominic Grieve's double-barrelled have-a-go former Traffic Warden and Store Detective?

Con-Watch: Cameron Calls Up Spectre of Thatcher 2008

Grieve suggests that brave good-faith have-a-go heroes will not face arrest, and then in disconcerting non sequitor that once arrested, investigated and passed to the CPS good intentions will be a factor in deciding what next.

Con-Watch: Have-a-Go-Hero Dominic Grieve 2008

On paper it is a terrible idea: let every have-a-go writer on the planet publish whatever they fancy and give it all away free.

Archive 2005-12-01 Sharon Bakar 2005