During a first operation, a gold-plated polished copper ring was implanted on the right eye for eye position recording.
No wonder there are scandals and gold-plated contracts and £300 spanners.
I defy them to tell the country that gold-plated teapots are an economic priority.
Indeed, many of the safeguards are what one might call gold-plated compared with safeguards in other industries.
Not all our ships have to be gold-plated.
My sneaking concern is that cross-compliance will lead to further regulation that will become gold-plated once our civil servants get their hands on it.
So far, they have collected £3,000 and a gold-plated toilet seat.
He felt that in that respect some of our ships were gold-plated.
