I should have thought there were more urgent anomalies than gold-plated teapots which dominated our economic life at the moment.
If you describe a ring as a gold ring, you are thought to be referring to a gold ring, and not to a gold-plated ring.
Perhaps, for once, you will forget your own gold-plated salaries and gold-plated pensions and think of the reality of what these initiatives cost.
The only anomalies he dealt with were on plain elastic fabrics and gold-plated teapots.
How ludicrous, but how nice for the doggy who has everything—his own gold-plated diary, calendar and tidal predictions for the next year.
Has society introduced swathes of new gold-plated regulations?
No one here is after a gold-plated scheme.
He felt that in that respect some of our ships were gold-plated.
