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Meanings of gadfly in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "pest"
Examples for "pest"
1
New Zealand's largest-ever pest control operation has been given the go ahead.
2
Balanced invertebrate ecosystems are also a strong natural source of pest control.
3
Dr Cheng-Long Chuang explains how the technology helps farmers fight the pest.
4
One assembly member fears it will lead to fly-tipping and pest problems.
5
There was a pest in Athens in the fifth century before Christ.
1
Joseph said, I think you should add a couple of cuss words.
2
They knew the best Spanish cuss words and where to score dope.
3
I said a few comforting cuss words and took off after DeChooch.
4
Got in just in time to pop the cuss that had you.
5
I wanted to stand on the corner and cuss someone out too.
1
In which case, cruel to be kind, one simply stunned the blighter.
2
Lend me a bottle of whisky and mount guard-mustimpress the blighter.
3
The very next time I meet the blighter, I'll cut him dead.
4
Fawncy the blighter'd feel better wif two legs, if one was Boche.
5
I not only caught the blighter, but I put his light out.'
1
In Grantham lived an apothecary, name of Clarke, an indefatigable pesterer.
2
M. d'Anquetil was the first to break the silence by questioning himself aloud, swearing horribly the while, who the deuce the pesterers could be.
Usage of gadfly in английском
1
The gadfly had flown away, and Sindri bade his brother cease working.
2
He killed the cruel gadfly and threw it into the river.
3
He brushes it aside as the elephant might brush aside the ineffective gadfly.
4
Evelyn Davis, a well-known shareholder gadfly, spoke frequently at the meeting.
5
Three-point sharpshooter, journeyman and league gadfly Derrick Fisher last served in the role.
6
Mitchison in this reading is a gadfly turned into a butterfly.
7
Now he says the gadfly approach is just not working.
8
Nevertheless, as soon as he arrived, both felt him the gadfly in the house.
9
He could not forget the sharp sting of the gadfly.
10
The New York Times chose to call him a "wiry Texas gadfly".
11
His efforts can only be compared with those of a gadfly or a mosquito.
12
That man of intelligence who steals honey has to take birth as a gadfly.
13
And sometimes," he laughed, "those questions are as annoying as a gadfly!"
14
Bonnell has entangled himself, like a gadfly, into a web of contrarianism and derangement.
15
The people arose in their exasperation and cruelly demanded to be rid of their gadfly.
16
Until that day, the gadfly will continue to sting.
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United Kingdom
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