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Splurge on hiring the most skilled tailor you can find to shorten the skirt, probably with a simple, shirt-tail hem, without ruining the garment's lines.
Ask Teri Teri Agins 2010
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Splurge on hiring the most skilled tailor you can find to shorten the skirt, probably with a simple, shirt-tail hem, without ruining the garment's lines.
Ask Teri Teri Agins 2010
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Splurge on hiring the most skilled tailor you can find to shorten the skirt, probably with a simple, shirt-tail hem, without ruining the garment's lines.
Ask Teri Teri Agins 2010
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Splurge on hiring the most skilled tailor you can find to shorten the skirt, probably with a simple, shirt-tail hem, without ruining the garment's lines.
Ask Teri Teri Agins 2010
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Another shirt-tail Trek connection: George ‘no relation’ Wallace, had an uncredited role as “Olson”, also appeared as Admiral Simons in the Next Generation! episode Man of the People.
100 Mysteries: Kansas City Confidential . . . in Tijuana – The Bleat. 2009
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As such, the New York Times has seen fit to wipe its monocle off on its shirt-tail and turn its aging journalistic eye on the city's bicyclists by putting together a whimsical little "field guide:"
Down With Gears, or Down With Gears: Figuring Out What to Ride BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Baldwin (a shirt-tail relative of mine) beats Goebbels in my book too, but not by a lot.
Oh Ohs David 2006
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Cameron too will find his feeble attempt to shirt-tail Barack "Frozone" Obama ends in a big chill for the Conservatives.
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I must commend your readers for demonstrating considerably more maturity than mine, who deliberately misinterpreted the shirt-tail on my lap as my wang.
hit me baby, one more time…with your accordion! « raincoaster 2007
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He always wiped the dirt or snow off, tucked his ripped shirt-tail in, or went yuk-yuk-yuk as he rubbed his reddening ass-cheeks, and the hate hardly ever showed.
Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007
reesetee commented on the word shirt-tail
Old nickname for the Red-headed Woodpecker. Also called Half-a-shirt and Jelly Coat.
January 5, 2008