10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COME UP SMILING»
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come up smiling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Sport in Australian Drama
Come Up Smiling is ignored by even specialised books on ... Come Up Smiling
lacks most of the geographical or national icons so beloved of local film makers
of the time, but treats women as individuals and protagonists. Romance coupling
...
Richard Fotheringham,
1992
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
smiling. come up smiling recover from adversity and cheerfully face the future.
informal 1989Woman's Realm But despite her ordeal courageous Kelly has
come up smiling and is now looking forward to a bright future.
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Whyte-Melville, M. or N., 1869. come tricks , see COME, 3. come up smiling . To
smile though (esp. if heavily) PUNISHED: boxing; from ca 1860. 2. Hence, to face
defeat without complaining or flinching: coll; from ca 1870. John Strange Winter ...
4
Withnail & I: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were ...
... but come up smiling Tuesday morning'.6 Marwood suffers from a panic attack
induced by drug abuse at the beginning and end of the film. He also seems
knowledgeable in the effects of speed judging by his voiceover dialogue in the ...
Thomas Hewitt-McManus,
2006
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... and come up smelling of roses, explains the idea behind it. smile come up
smiling recover from adversity and cheerfully face the future. informal 1989
Woman's Realm But despite her ordeal courageous Kelly has come up smiling
and is now ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Come up Smiling, verbalphr. (pugilistic).—To laugh (or grin) at ' punishment ';
hence (generally) to be superior to rebuff or disaster ; to face defeat without
flinching. 1887. JohnStrange Winter, That Imp,p. 67.And yetcome up smiling atthe
end of ...
7
An Asperger Dictionary of Everyday Expressions: Second Edition
... smelling of roses, come up smiling, come up to scratch, come up trumps, come
up with the goods, conjure up, couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery, cover up,
crack up, cracked up to be, cut up rough, dead from the neck up, death warmed ...
Ian Stuart-Hamilton,
2006
8
Man's Courage: (New York Classics)
Did your husband tell you? He knew I was going to come up." Again she glanced
around. "I asked your husband if I could come up." Smiling at Marya, she seated
herself at the table. The two studied each other in silence, one's expression rigid
...
9
The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema
Hall produced all of these and, with the exception of Come up Smiling, also
directed them. His style was unremarkable and unobtrusive, very much in the
Hollywood classical tradition. However, Hall was no one man show and it is
important to ...
Albert Moran, Errol Vieth,
2009
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
he'd only come up smelling of violets (occ. roses), an almost proverbial c.p.
applied to somebody consistently and remarkably lucky: C.20, perhaps earlier. (
P.B.) come up smiling. To smile though (esp. if heavily) 'punished': boxing; from
ca.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COME UP SMILING»
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THAT REMINDS ME: Grand Forks' bane, 1905: Not mosquitoes, but …
It is built to take hard knocks and come up smiling." The ad was inserted by Maewan & Daugherty, agents, 105 N. Third Street, Grand Forks. «Grand Forks Herald, Jun 15»
Fifi Box shows her class by shrugging off trashy mag onslaught and …
In fact, whatever challenges Fifi Box has faced, she has always come up smiling and full of good humour. So perhaps it's time that we all cut her ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jun 15»
Hill retiree, 69, dances to the beat of many drummers
“They always come up smiling.” When he's not contra dancing, Blum attends Mostly Waltz once a month in Broomall and Waltz Time twice a ... «Chestnut Hill Local, May 15»
Murray Lands First Clay Title
If Kohlschreiber finished the dogfight yesterday feeling battered and downcast, one man who has come up smiling is Jonas Bjorkman, the ... «The New Indian Express, May 15»
Manitoulin Island marks Parkinson's Superwalk
There are good days and bad days and you have to come up smiling.” Ms. Proulx encourages all Islanders with PD, as well as family members ... «Manitoulin Expositor, Apr 15»
'I've been disconnected to some degree from AFL'
"Our theme song when I was there had a line in it, 'We'll come up smiling, whether we win or lose.' It's not in there now and it shouldn't have ... «The Age, Apr 15»
A Fine Madness screened at the library April 18
... beleaguered wife (Joanne Woodward) plunge into a series of daffy disasters from which he still manages to come up smiling. That is, until he ... «Estes Park Trail-Gazette, Apr 15»
No stopping zone
... campaign that we wrote: “Christopher Pyne, one suspects, could be caught in a tornado of excrement and piranhas and still come up smiling. «The Australian, Mar 15»
Exclusive: The man who shipped himself across the world
... [to be able to do this] and Reg was that very special person - he seems to have a tolerance for pretty much anything and come up smiling". «3News NZ, Mar 15»
Hillary Clinton Is Turning Into Richard Nixon and Bill Belichick
... to come up smiling for another two-year vitriol-storm. Forget Nixon: she's beginning to rival Bill Belichick in the oozing-contempt department. «RollingStone.com, Mar 15»