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Examples of quip


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I suppose then that tenured professors get to make the best colon quips because they can afford to.
There is some truth to the quip that psychoanalytic clinicians understand the word data to be a plural of the word anecdote.
It can even be turned to wry advantage in quips that turn the homely wisecrack into a sagacious crevice.
These figures are unmistakable evidence that our production drive is increasing, and that our plans for modernising and re-quipping the fleet are producing the goods.
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Instead of that we have had a series of quips on personalities.
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This is not a quip, and is not too cheap and easy a statement.
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He was known for the quip that everything in life is foreseeable, as long as one has the foresight.
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She quipped that she hoped to return this year and enjoy one of the homes.
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He then quipped that it was the passengers who were having to become more helpful, because they were showing the drivers the routes.
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Obviously, it was a joke that fell flat; it was meant to be a very good-humoured quip.
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I very much enjoyed the quips with which he accompanied his criticism.
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He has enlivened us with quips and kept us amused, but all the time he has kept the serious objective in view.
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It was not a quip, or an attempt to be flippant.
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I did not hear that quip, but it may have been on account of the candidates.
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We have enjoyed it not so much for its content but for the quips he so lightly made in the course of it.
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These arguments of nationality seem to be all quips.
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We are talking about not introducing competition into serious matters, and in such a serious debate we do not need silly schoolboy quips.
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I do not resent in the slightest his quips at me regarding the downstairs tea-room.
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That involves taking harsh decisions, not making idiotic quips.
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His most telling quip, which academics might dignify as a "rejoinder" to the majority, is to propose an examination question for their students.
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That, of course, is a very old quip on this subject.
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My quip just now may have appeared discourteous.
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He passes it off with a good-humoured quip as if it were of less significance.
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And, indeed, there is substance in that quip.
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Is my noble friend referring to my quip about an elephant being recognisable although difficult to define?
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