Примери за forelock

• They found it not in the ancestral piles and forelock-tugging tenantry still prized by provincial elites, but in the determined pursuit of luxurious fashion in the capital.

• They touched their forelocks, accepted their money and that was it.

• The time when the working classes in this country have pulled their forelocks to their betters has gone.

• We should widen the responsibility and make it clear that we do not simply have one door to which those people come crawling on their knees, tugging their forelocks.

• I took time by the forelock and went to see my supplier.

• They would have taken time by the forelock and gone on spending more money than we have done since 1945.

• We have to take time by the forelock and be ready with permanent plans.

• Today, employees are not prepared to accept the forelock-touching attitude of yesteryear.

• In a sense, we have taken time by the forelock.

• Here is an opportunity for taking time by the forelock.

• Let us take time by the forelock and get on with the building of a few factories, perhaps experimentally.

• The economic loss which will accrue unless we take time by the forelock will be colossal.

• In this organization we are taking time by the forelock.

• They would always anticipate events; they would grasp time by the forelock; it would never be necessary to create unemployment for economic reasons.

• The forelock-touching society has gone, and a good thing too.