CAMEL n. A quadruped ordsprog
 After the initiation of the Joe Camel campaign, the percentage of smokers under the age of 18 who smoked Camel cigarettes became larger than the percentage of all adult smokers [using Camels]. |
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| It's totally untrue. I keep hearing that and I just shake my head. The AFC Championship Game last year may have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but the camel was already well-saddled-up. We were going to do something about it already. |
Paul Gallico (1897-) |  |
| It's the analogy of the straw and the camel's back. We keep loading the camel's back with straw and higher energy prices and interest rates. It's probably going to be what's good for oil is going to be bad for the rest of the market. |
| I wonder if it's going to be a test too far. They're changing the length, the range and the format all at once, so it could prompt the same kind of backlash among students and admissions offices alike as the new SAT has. It's true that the old test didn't do a good job of predicting graduate school performance, but when you add in everything everybody asks for, you get a camel — a camel being a horse built by committee. |
| It's the straw that broke the camel's back, if the camel's back is broken. |
| O my beloved camel-like mind, day and night, lovingly attune yourself to the Lord. Return to your own home, and find the palace of love; meet the Guru, and meet the Lord. O camel-like mind, you are my friend; abandon hypocrisy and greed. |
| It's another straw on the camel's back toward higher rates, ... but it isn't the straw that breaks the camel's back. |
| This is the camel's nose under the tent for using search engines and all kinds of data aggregators as surveillance tools. |
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| The America's Cup, yachting is great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel. |
| It's a great day for the attorneys general, ... Joe Camel and his ilk are now in intensive care and will be gone by April. Billboards will be coming down, and the real truth about tobacco will be available to every American. |
| Tie your camel, then trust in Allah |
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "CAMEL, n. A quadruped (the _Splaypes humpidorsus_) of great value to the show business. There are two kinds of camels --the camel proper and the camel improper. It is the latter that is always exhibited.".
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Ordsprog (1469561 st) Søg
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Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "CAMEL, n. A quadruped (the _Splaypes humpidorsus_) of great value to the show business. There are two kinds of camels --the camel proper and the camel improper. It is the latter that is always exhibited.".