Boone was carrying ten packages of biscuits and ten packages of gingerbread.
Another fifty packages of biscuits and fifty packages of gingerbread were discovered in his home.
Gingerbread (2000) highlights the shortage of places in rural areas which may be inherently hard to resolve.
For those of us who live in prudent local authority areas, the safety net takes some of the gilt off the gingerbread.
The gilt has quickly been stripped off the gingerbread.
Therefore, so far as the financial position is concerned, the whole of the gilt has been washed off the gingerbread.
Did he, therefore, ignore inflation, or did he merely omit to mention the price of putting the gilt on the gingerbread?
As the debate has worn on, however, some of the gilt has come off the gingerbread.