Exempel på frippery

• Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlour, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster's daughter.

• Nothing but superficialities and fripperies, on the issue of re-armament, have been discussed here today.

• The programme of spending that we are discussing is not frippery.

• We cannot afford at present the labour needed for making, handling, and selling these unnecessary knick-knacks and fripperies, which involve a large amount of labour.

• This is too serious a matter to indulge in this kind of frippery.

• We need to strip the scheme down to the essentials and consider it apart from all the fripperies.

• Grass verges and public parks are not fripperies: they are central to the vitality of our communities.

• It is these serious realities, and not the cheap party fripperies that are worrying the serious-minded people in this country.

• Those are not luxuries or fripperies, but basic necessities.

• Now is a time when we do not want ornamental names or titles or frippery of that sort.

• We are not indulging in frippery, because the arts are significant and not simply a minority interest.

• They want to send to us what are less essential goods, what one might call fripperies, and we just cannot afford to exchange for those goods valuable capital equipment.

• Get rid of all these silly fripperies.

• Fund-raising activities are no longer being undertaken for what used to be considered to be the fripperies or luxuries or for the fortunate extensions of educational experience.

• Far from contemplating any form of royal frippery, we suggest that a new—probably smaller—royal yacht should be designed and built without further delay for export promotion.