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Meanings of paperhanger in English
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empaperador Usage of paperhanger in English
1
The paperhanger went into action and turned into a wizard of efficiency.
2
You throw one cockadoodie ashtray and I'm as busy as a one-armed paperhanger.
3
You can 'ave a pair of paperhanger's tressels and boards for that matter.'
4
Though strictly a paperhanger by trade, he could be plasterer too when he liked.
5
To leave it for the painter and paperhanger to settle would be a fatal error.
6
The paperhanger's wife verbed better than she knew.
7
Hitler had been a paperhanger, or so the story went; Jim Rennie was a used car dealer.
8
Tells how Mae got a paperhanger to fix up the house so Essy could have a lodger.
9
I'll apprentice myself to a paperhanger, and learn to paper my rooms with my worthless railway shares.
10
The next morning we went to a paperhanger's shop and asked to see the very newest and most artistic designs in stock.
11
I wanted to show them our red plush furniture, and the trumpet-blowing cherubs the German paperhanger had put on our parlour ceiling.
12
And it was the same at the little paperhanger's shop where Theophilus had ordered some pieces of Morris wall-paper for his room.
13
As soon as the puppies were bestowed on the porch, in the sunshine, for their morning nap, he telephoned to the local paperhanger.
14
During a highly confidential conference, a paperhanger arrived and pasted on one wall a world map measuring 12 x 18.
15
I built an addition to my dwelling; and when it was completed I employed a paperhanger from London named Taylor, to beautify the old rooms.
16
The New Yorker, October 24, 1936 P. 9 A lady waiting for the paperhanger to arrive played Beethoven's Third Symphony on the Victrola.
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