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Meanings of brighton rock in English

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Type of hard stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery.

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Examples for "rock"
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He said: ''My business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone.''
The two towers
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Four Icelanders and an American asked the question: Can rock climbing help?
Climbing Magazine
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The government plans to control the state before hitting rock-bottom, he said.
Reuters
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However, local climbers have long felt the area's dearth of quality rock.
Climbing Magazine
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There is a rock rising from a great turquoise sea of sand.
Year's best sf 15
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He even recorded songs about the place, such as the lascivious and censor-baffling Little Stick of Blackpool Rock.
The Guardian
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If you sliced me in half I would have Labour running through me like a stick of Blackpool rock.
The Guardian
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England are 2-0 down so need to win both matches oop north to avoid being Blackpool rocked.
The Guardian
Usage of brighton rock in English
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The latter has divilment running through her like letters through Brighton rock.
The Irish Times
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Check out this scene with future Doctor Who William Hartnell from Brighton Rock.
The Irish Times
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We can feel properly nostalgic for Brighton Rock now.
The Guardian
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For 1947 we also considered Brighton Rock, It Always Rains on Sunday, Body and Soul and Monsieur Verdoux.
The Irish Times
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This bizarre promotional ploy subsequently became part of the language and was immortalised in Graham Greene's Brighton Rock.
The Irish Times
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It's hard to locate a real tradition of homegrown film noir but Brighton Rock comes close to it.
The Guardian
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Images of everything from Brighton Rock to Emma, The Woman In White to Notting Hill, filled my head.
The Guardian
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Those are, however, minor performances when set beside his Pinkie in Brighton Rock and his John Christie in 10 Rillington Place.
The Irish Times
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Brighton Rock's conclusion seems evocative of the end of Heart of Darkness (Greene always acknowledged Conrad's influence on him).
The Guardian
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Heck, I find it a bit ludicrous and I've got "wet liberal" written through me like a stick of Brighton Rock.
The Irish Times
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Reviewing Down Terrace in the Observer, for instance, Philip French described it as " Brighton Rock reworked in the style of The Royle Family".
The Guardian
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Similarly, Graham Greene's Brighton Rock plucked the lowest string in my brain when I read it in my teens, and has left it humming since.
The Guardian
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Actress Helen Mirren arrives at the gala presentation for the film " Brighton Rock" at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival September 13, 2010.
Reuters
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British actress Helen Mirren poses for photographers as she arrives for the European premiere of " Brighton Rock" at Leicester Square in London February 1, 2011.
Reuters