10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REACH-ME-DOWN»
Discover the use of
reach-me-down in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
reach-me-down and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
... with festivity is illustrated by the "Fenian Marseillaise" which was sung at the
end of "Fenian picnics": "Away with speech, and brother, reach me down that rifle
gun./ By her sweet voice, and hers alone, the rights of man are won." C. Wittke ...
James H. Billington, 2011
Reach me down the shredded wheat. Please.” But people outside the lesbian
and gay community don't have any problems with this. They subliminally
understand the concept of butch and femme. For instance, when I perform in a
certain town ...
3
Oxford Thesaurus of English
... faded hand-me-down dress: second-hand, used, nearly new, handed-down,
passed-on, cast-off, worn, old, pre-owned; Brit. informal reach-me-down.
wANTONYMS new. handout. noun 1 (handouts) she existed on handouts as her
husband ...
4
The Most Beautiful Man in Existence: The Scandalous Life of ...
My disposition exemplified by threatening to turn Susan out of doors, [& for what]
— persuading a young woman, (a patient) to let me get on her back, while I pilfer
sugar;— & an old man to go with me to the pantry, while & reach me down an ...
At this stage of his career Verdi scored for emphasis, sonorous or rhythmic. To
turn the full searchlight of stereophonic technique on the reach-me-down devices
whereby he maintains the scale and momentum of numbers such a 'Gli arredi ...
6
Personalism Revisited: Its Proponents and Critics
... the "soul" as it would have been called in an earlier thought,dispensation, to be
one of the most interesting and pivotal of cosmic structures, one which, if dealt
with in a careless or reach,me,down manner, as a side,issue or a queer offshoot
...
Thomas O. Buford, Harold H. Oliver, 2002
Spoken by a blinded old man, without heart or reason to run longer from
persecution, those words do serious damage to Edgar's reach-me-down
philosophy. After ripeness, rotting. Gloucester knows that in old age there is a
limit to resistance ...
'Reach Me Down', sir." Denning nodded and Grant waited until his superior had
finished his conversation with Birmingham police headquarters and returned the '
phone to its rest — then he asked a question. "I suppose we're on the right track ...
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Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek ...
... forward a reach-me-down psychoanalytic discourse of metonymies and
objectifying gazes, desiring subjects and recalcitrant objects, exhibitionism and
epistemophilia. Zola's Nona is seen as engaged in a 134 FIGURES OF DISSENT
Peter ...
10
Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations
... of the self: “What the Investigations try to therapise us out of is just that Western
bourgeois notion of 'inwardness'—of an inner life so deep, subtle and evanescent
that it eludes the reach-me-down categories of our social existence.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REACH-ME-DOWN»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
reach-me-down is used in the context of the following news items.
Comment: Discount dominance of British high streets is here to stay
Couple this with charity shops and the effect is one of reach-me-down glamour. Everything can be bought for a knock-down price, just don't bank on feeling great ... «Retail Week, Jun 15»
Dance has never addressed whether making money is a good or …
A person who only goes to see dance at Christmas looks for an affordable Nutcracker or Swan Lake experience, not caring whether it's reach-me-down Russian ... «Spectator.co.uk, Apr 15»
Let's Be Cops is a dumb movie with comic smarts
the presence of at least one Wayans brother (although strictly speaking Damon Jr is a Wayans nephew, which just seems even more reach-me-down); and a ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
Comment: Why Sports Direct on Oxford Street matters
For all the world, the ground floor looks like a mildly reach-me-down version of Niketown just along the street, albeit this is not a single brand proposition. «Retail Week, May 14»
Grayson Perry: A very modern artist
... as he explains, in the escape and refuge that a transvestite second skin promised. However, the reach-me-down phrase “alter ego” does not really suit Claire. «The Independent, Oct 13»
Urban Outfitters Camden, same old, same old?
Its version of reach-me-down chic also happens to fit perfectly with the Camden Market locality and it does what it does better than most in the area. Yet still the ... «Retail Week, Jul 13»
Into the new blue void
The tawdriness of Friedmanism, with its reach-me-down “free-market”, “free-to-choose” sales pitch, has played havoc with Conservatism and the moral authority ... «New Statesman, Apr 13»
Too unforgiving an analysis of a father
Nor does he appear to understand that one of the attractions of American literature is the absence of modish, reach-me-down opinions in the work of its greatest ... «Evening Standard, Mar 13»
Modelki i znana piosenkarka były ekskluzywnymi prostytutkami …
Unstudied Ginger has been reach-me-down to go to as long furtively as anyone can recollect for treating overturn stomachs, on the other hand it's also ... «Gazeta Wrocławska, Jan 13»
Store gallery: John Lewis pop-up, Exeter
And as a means of melding relatively high-tech, omnichannel retailing with a temporary and reach-me-down environment, this is also an exercise in reconciling ... «Retail Week, Sep 12»
