Plucked straight from the brine, the flavour of the olives can be overpowered by the salt.

The down-home ending was plucked straight from the hills where this team hails from.

One of the lessons sounds as if it might have been plucked straight from the preface of "The Story of O," namely, "obedience is the only path to happiness."

Her name is Ms Jocelyn Rimmington, and she looks as if she's been plucked straight out of an Evelyn Waugh novel.

A social worker in the foster-care system could have been plucked straight from the pages of the book.

Wood-panelled, high-ceilinged, with a francophone chocolatier at the rear, it could have been plucked straight from Saint-Germain.

He sounds as though he were plucked straight off a big university campus circa 1969.

The whole issue is clouded arbitary opinions, regularly plucked straight out of the tabloid media.

Recipes are plucked straight out of grandma's cookbook, local contemporary art to buy hangs on the walls and simplicity is the predominant philosophy driving the place.

The gray, slant-roofed building with its tall steeple looked as if it had been plucked straight from a small New England town.