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Sanders' Union Speaker: Containing a Great Variety of ...
Maria. You didn't know the difference, my little Miss ; because its feathers were
picked off. I tell you again, it was a goose. Jane. But do you think my eyes could
so far deceive me that I can't tell chalk from cheese. I say again, it was a turkey.
Charles Walton Sanders, 1864
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Anselm; or, The confessor and penitent [in verse].
... Nor yet to most men's minds thoughts to recal Of the great master, but some
can't tell Chalk from cheese, and into strange blunders fall, And these rugged
lines are meant to repel Th' insinuations of such critics small — A kind of gentry
ever ...
... only farm in Chalk. The Farmer and his Family before you walk back Will bid
you in to sit awhile and share their midday snack ; O they that live in Chalk Farm
they live at their ease, For the Farmer and his Family can't tell Chalk from Cheese
.
Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, 1916
... Stickley grumbled along 0' havin' to send her children to school so regular, you
said " “ There, get on wi' your work," interrupted ]onas, waving his pipe with a
lordly air; “ 'tis waste 0' breath to argey with 'ee; ye can't tell chalk from cheese.
“Bosun,” he called, “look here, did you do these? Wipe off my paints and cut them
into strings And smear them till you can't tell chalk from cheese. Don't stare, but
did you do it? Answer, please." The bosun turned. “I'll give you a thick ear. Do it?
He clambered down, holding the ruined things. “Bosun,” he called, “look here, did
you do these? Wipe off my paints and cut them into strings And smear them till
you can't tell chalk from cheese. Don't stare, but did you do it? Answer, please.
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Interplay: a kind of commonplace book
By all means let film and television become the objects of study; by no means can
it be prohibited. It's not true that the experts can't tell chalk from cheese. They
prefer to eat chalk. Richard Hoggart (Times Literary Supplement, 9 July 1993) ...
Dennis Joseph Enright, 1995
Who is usually the butt of these variety acts? The writer. The writer endlessly
rewriting his own work, until it loses all the point it ever had. The hack-writer. The
writer who can't tell chalk from cheese. The writer who does this, or does that.
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The Saturday Evening Post
Seal the nostrils and you can't “tell chalk from cheese,” not even a cube of apple
from a cube of onion, as scores of experiments have shown. We all know how fiat
tea, coffee and even our favorite dishes taste when we have a bad cold, and ...
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Solo: The Life of Sandy Denny
Is it just that the rock audience can't tell chalk from cheese, and so discourages
those who can from going on caring about the difference? Or is it that the
beautiful singer, lacking limitations, is turned aside from art by having no
obstacles to ...
Clinton Heylin, Pam Winters, 2000
