"local" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The story goes that he was fed up with local wags smearing mud on the initial C from city signs, changing it to "assville".
- My involvement in the Gary Soneji kidnapping had already been broadcast by the local wags.
- Indeed, one local wag used to say that, on a really good day, smoke could be seen rising from the chimneys!
- The local wags made laborious jests when he passed.
- On the first of those tours, after scoring 75 at Sydney against New South Wales, a local wag presented Barlow with a commemorative belt.
- Named after an adjacent church, local wags nicknamed it "the Passover".
- He won convictions in several cases considered by local wags as "impossible" successfully to prosecute, including one kidnapping.
- In 1886 some unnamed local wag wrote a poem called "Dog Town," explaining how the Chester had acquired such a pejorative nickname.
- A local wag scratched on it: "ridden to death by careless John".
- So many chains opened in Aberdeen that a local wag claimed Main Street, where our store was located, should be renamed Chain Street.
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