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- adjective Alternative spelling of
hobnailed .
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Examples
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As Birmingham International serves a cachement area with a sizeable Muslim Minority, you can bet your boots (size twelve, hob-nailed) that some Jobsworth did much pursing of his lips as he contemplated the inflaming or appeasing of this small portion of the public using the place before reaching instantly for the ‘appease’ button.
Appeasers at Work 2008
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There will be little whimsy here as today's unfortunate verbal diarrhea spew just crowds humor into a corner and then kicks at it with hob-nailed boots.
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Bruin won't go until someone stamps on those bitten fingernails with hob-nailed boots and lets him fall from the Downing St window.
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There will be little whimsy here as today's unfortunate verbal diarrhea spew just crowds humor into a corner and then kicks at it with hob-nailed boots.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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As Birmingham International serves a cachement area with a sizeable Muslim Minority, you can bet your boots (size twelve, hob-nailed) that some Jobsworth did much pursing of his lips as he contemplated the inflaming or appeasing of this small portion of the public using the place before reaching instantly for the ‘appease’ button.
Archive 2007-12-30 2007
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So twenty seconds after the man calls it a wrap with "... and God bless the United States of America" down stomps the BBC in size eleven hob-nailed Doc Martins.
Biased BBC 2009
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But they knew they didn't like the spectacle of Congressional Republicans stomping all over the case in hob-nailed boots, abandoning any notion of Congressional restraint, let alone respect for States 'Rights and due process.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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So twenty seconds after the man calls it a wrap with "... and God bless the United States of America" down stomps the BBC in size eleven hob-nailed Doc Martins.
Archive 2009-01-20 2009
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But they knew they didn't like the spectacle of Congressional Republicans stomping all over the case in hob-nailed boots, abandoning any notion of Congressional restraint, let alone respect for States 'Rights and due process.
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But they knew they didn't like the spectacle of Congressional Republicans stomping all over the case in hob-nailed boots, abandoning any notion of Congressional restraint, let alone respect for States 'Rights and due process.
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