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One thing to remember, they will be working girls (if you see what I mean) and the GK will have to call them by name in front of a load of rufty tufty outdoor types so I've been told that Doris and Ethel won't do.
Name Those Ferrets 2007
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One thing to remember, they will be working girls (if you see what I mean) and the GK will have to call them by name in front of a load of rufty tufty outdoor types so I've been told that Doris and Ethel won't do.
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One thing to remember, they will be working girls (if you see what I mean) and the GK will have to call them by name in front of a load of rufty tufty outdoor types so I've been told that Doris and Ethel won't do.
Name Those Ferrets 2007
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Criticising the content of Statham's films as implausibly rufty-tufty is like tutting at Super Mario Bros for its failure to accurately represent the lives of Italian-American plumbers.
The Guardian World News Daniel Bettridge 2011
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Even the rufty tuftiest of birds is guilty of this one.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph James May 2011
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Well, you know, it's a rufty-tufty world and you have to live with that in politics.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Connery may be, as Bray claims, the epitome of rufty-tufty masculinity, but I have never found him as sexually attractive as the author evidently does.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It's a rufty-tufty world and you have to deal with it.
U.K. to Press Ahead With Two Aircraft Carriers Even as Costs Cut, Fox Says - Bloomberg 2010
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It is no proper recom - mendation of that holy religion to Indians and others to perpetrate the greatelt cruelties upon them in order to bring them over to worfhip two crofs - fticks, a rufty nail, or the putrified bones of fome animal which they call a faint.
A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796
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It is of a dulky colour above, tinged th a brown or rufty call, and whitiih below.
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