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- noun Plural form of
clanger .
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Examples
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Sessions are run with all the students together in a room, so there's an element of having to cope with a bit of gentle public ribbing at some of the more desperate clangers.
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US pitch: The clangers are enemy combatants who have established a presence on one of the moons of Saturn.
Matt LeBlanc comedy Episodes shows what can go wrong in remaking telly 2011
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His hilarious if somewhat alarming clangers to date have included:
The Implications Of Courting Popularity « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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The edited version of the speech (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol 18, no 2) skips over much of that argument because everybody told me so many things I'd said were clangers.
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It's skilfully done, despite a few lyrical clangers, but the rock arrangements flatten his songs, and his persona gets predictable.
Devlin – review Alex Macpherson 2010
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In his own speech, Dave Collyer also had some clangers.
James Hoggan: Oil Sands Newest PR Push Doomed to Fail -- Again 2010
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What is AIG's peer-review process like, if clangers like these can get through it?
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By Foster's own admission, he "dropped a few clangers" last season, but Birmingham seems like a good move to get his career back on track.
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In his own speech, Dave Collyer also had some clangers.
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David Crystal my old mate from OU days, not personally I hasten to add, but thanks to his wonderful little book Rediscover Grammar I dropped far fewer clangers than may otherwise have been the case.
johnmperry commented on the word clangers
BBCtv animation show ostensibly aimed at children. But since it was broadcast around 6pm on Sundays, it became quite a family favourite. Broadcast between 69/11 and 72/11.
They communicated using sounds "quite similar to" a Swannee whistle.
The Clangers are small, pink mouselike persons who live under their planet's surface in caves protected by saucepan lids. The noise of the lids being closed (to protect their home from falling space debris) gave the Clangers their name. The series told of their encounters with iron chickens, seeds, and sentient musical instruments.
They lived on a small, hollow planet far far away, nourished by Blue String Pudding, and Green Soup harvested from the planet's volcanic soup wells by the Soup Dragon.
June 19, 2008