Significados de spad en inglés

Drawed a knife, jes' like a spad that ye are!

Within the railway safety fraternity spad is the acronym for a signal passed at danger.

The latest spad to come under fire is Michael Gove's at the Department for Education.

Dexterity though, in negotiating Whitehall paths, is surely part of what a spad is for.

A spad's position is often happy but the role's ambiguities can make for a rough ride.

And that's one of the lessons of spad-dom.

The title is sonorous enough though its abbreviation into "spad" sounds like an unappetising cooked meat.

He's a true spad pilot.

Alastair Campbell was technically a spad although his ways with dossiers made life difficult for the breed as a whole.

I know a bit about this because one of our sons was a spad during five years of the Blair-Brown era.

That's what I did when I was a spad at the Welsh Office, and Dominic Cummings will be doing the same.

Where it goes wrong is when a media spad is too pro-active, too partisan and sometimes too good -ie like Damian.

Among the many continuing irritations of the little-mourned The West Wing was its unflinching devotion to a class of smart-talking, smart-suited Ivy League spad.

Every Whitehall spad will know the name of the mayor of New York; perhaps only one in a hundred could identify the mayor of Paris.

At the beginning of this year there were just over 100 spads.

Politicians fight to get their chosen SpAd with as much money as possible.