Examples of copybook

• A small blot on the copybook is as much a blot as a big one.

• Bishop finished blotting his copybook by declaring that it would be at least two years before any sort of elections took place.

• That is clear enough and that assertion is certainly a blot on the venture's otherwise perfect public copybook.

• It was a copybook example of how political pressures inexorably work against sensible commercial decisions in matters such as this.

• I wish he could learn from his own copybook platitudes.

• There is a copybook heading which we forget at our peril: namely, that appetite grows with what it feeds on.

• I hope that he will not make a speech like that again and talk about copybook maxims.

• I believe it is that which has inspired all the copybook maxims of morality we have heard this afternoon.