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- noun Alternative form of
tea towel .
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Examples
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The monarchist spin-machine, the tabloids and the tea-towel industry have created a pair of fictitious characters for us to cheer -- while the real people behind them are being tormented by their supposed fans.
Johann Hari: Don't Be Fooled, Many Brits Will Cringe at the Royal Wedding Frenzy Johann Hari 2011
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The monarchist spin-machine, the tabloids and the tea-towel industry have created a pair of fictitious characters for us to cheer -- while the real people behind them are being tormented by their supposed fans.
Johann Hari: Don't Be Fooled, Many Brits Will Cringe at the Royal Wedding Frenzy Johann Hari 2011
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I knew I had seen him before: Saruman with a tea-towel on his head:
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The monarchist spin-machine, the tabloids and the tea-towel industry have created a pair of fictitious characters for us to cheer -- while the real people behind them are being tormented by their supposed fans.
Johann Hari: Don't Be Fooled, Many Brits Will Cringe at the Royal Wedding Frenzy Johann Hari 2011
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The monarchist spin-machine, the tabloids and the tea-towel industry have created a pair of fictitious characters for us to cheer -- while the real people behind them are being tormented by their supposed fans.
Johann Hari: Don't Be Fooled, Many Brits Will Cringe at the Royal Wedding Frenzy Johann Hari 2011
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We have Vinny O'Connor, a man resembling a common garden gnome, pitched up outside Manchester City's stadium, usually accompanied by a splashing of energetic Mancs with tea-towel's wrapped around their heads.
Eliot Rothwell: Jim White And Transfer Deadline Day as a National Event Eliot Rothwell 2011
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Angrier than I've even seen SirlordAlanSugar and, as I know he won't mind me saying, sometimes Alan gets so angry when someone doesn't make a profit on reselling plums that the producers have to dim the studio lights and chuck a tea-towel over his cage to pretend it's night-time until the rage passes.
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The monarchist spin-machine, the tabloids and the tea-towel industry have created a pair of fictitious characters for us to cheer -- while the real people behind them are being tormented by their supposed fans.
Johann Hari: Don't Be Fooled, Many Brits Will Cringe at the Royal Wedding Frenzy Johann Hari 2011
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It is here that you see those people: the ones who don't just own diverse Union Jack memorabilia, but who deck themselves out in it as walking billboards of tea-towel nationalism.
The Queen's first visit to Wimbledon since 1977 rouses excitement 2010
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"Of course Sven would be interested in this job," cooed sources close to the smooth Swede, who four years ago revealed his fondness for the club in a conversation with an unscrupulous man in a tea-towel.
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