It was just the excuse she needed to get stroppy.

When we try to move her, she gets stroppy and starts growling at us.

Anyhow, nobody seemed inclined to get stroppy with us, so that was all right.

"I just hope that the bank doesn't get stroppy over my signature.

Got stroppy about a patient, one of his guards, and told him a few home truths."

What makes you think I can cook as well as get stroppy about words?'

'The sergeant told me he had done all that was required and then got stroppy.

"She won't talk to me, Sarge, and she's getting stroppy.

'There are fires everywhere and some of the locals are getting stroppy.

"Don't they ju5t get stroppy when you miscall them!

"Now there's no need to get stroppy.

"Seems this was because of the former owners, the Rolfes, getting stroppy about the way they lost their freehold."

Mary got stroppy about it and said it was wrong what they were doing, it was a desecration.

If he got stroppy I'd send him straight off to bed like a naughty boy and smack his bottom if he complained.'

Nobby was getting stroppy about anyone else being promoted to corporal, so there was a certain amount of career congestion taking place.

'I'll go and have a word with him', Lawton said, 'but I won't push it unless he gets stroppy.'

'Don't get stroppy, son.

I have John Dall coming, and then Weng's getting stroppy because he says there's a lot of business paperwork I've neglected."

And if necesssary, after being sweetness and light, GET STROPPY.

They can draw up to £25,000 for legal advice - which is handy when LAs (who may own the land ths school stands on, for example) get stroppy.

PETER F. HAMILTON Don't get stroppy, Grandpa.

Or she thinks the Alaska legislature is getting stroppy (e.g., it might override her refusal to accept millions in federal stimulus funds) and figures it's better to let her lieutenant governor take the fall.

She couldn't stand his constant harping on whom she was seeing and what she was doing, she said, and the way he got stroppy if she ever so much as looked at another man.

Even when they feel the reffing is going against them, you do not see Ulster, Leinster or Munster players getting stroppy with the ref the way Youngs and Cole, to name just two, did.

But my instructions for the lads have always been that if you go to a job for a lady particularly and then a man comes along and starts to get stroppy, you'll have to explain to the lady you may have to leave it temporarily and go back.

That's why I was a bit stroppy when they started asking questions.

It was just the excuse she needed to get stroppy.

Thought it was all a bit of a game when we questioned him, then got really stroppy.

They were dreadful Arrogant and stroppy, right from the start.

He belonged to the days when a rat leader just had to be big and stroppy.

He had tried to get her to go upstairs with him and got a bit stroppy when she wouldn't.

When we try to move her, she gets stroppy and starts growling at us.

Of course, it was hardly evidence you could use at a tribunal, but they can get quite stroppy about things like that over there.

Grahame said she tried to contain her stroppy side this time around.

Anyhow, nobody seemed inclined to get stroppy with us, so that was all right.

Terry has a bit of temper, and he can get quite stroppy if you call him on anything."

She got very stroppy, sir, when I called her Miss.

Aaron why you going home in a stroppy mood?

Why give a stroppy and lazy student a low score when you can opt for the quiet life?

Big, hairy and stroppy, you'll get whatever you like.

With his stroppy behavior, he was not popular.

Gran-Em's grandmother who tends to get very stroppy at times.

"I just hope that the bank doesn't get stroppy over my signature.

Got stroppy about a patient, one of his guards, and told him a few home truths."

What makes you think I can cook as well as get stroppy about words?'

'The sergeant told me he had done all that was required and then got stroppy.

Teachers report themselves becoming punitive and stroppy with pupils, colleagues and their own families.

Oh yeah,, big, hairy, stroppy, dirty thing whatever you like.

The goody-goodies are ranged behind him, and the stroppy lot are all in front.

I think they thought I was just a stroppy bystander.'