And get chummy with your local building inspector, whose job it is to spot shoddy workmanship. |
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They'll be too busy enjoying the dry wit and chummy storytelling that has established Strong's enthusiastic following. |
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I detest her attempts to personify a chummy Liverpudlian lass when she probably hasn't been near the Scotty Road for 40 years. |
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He has, after all, always been a bit of an actor, with his chameleon persona and a voice that sometimes has a chummy, mockney tone. |
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Though professionally chummy she is personally steely, a shrewd operator with no qualms about tough questions and drawing blood. |
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Once we get chummy and familiar, we sometimes cease to ask the right questions that would identify new concerns, new objectives, new opportunities. |
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Get chummy with your tenants and you may find that they think you'll overlook late payments and minor damage to the property. |
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Anna warns Ms Braithwaite, the new lady's maid, not to get too chummy with Thomas. |
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During your interview, behave neither submissively nor arrogantly, be neither too stiff nor too chummy. |
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Mr Kuchma's other main move this week was a chummy chat with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. |
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These incumbents tend to be chummy with the government and get cheap land and loans. |
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Avoid private disturbances: Limit the time for your private chat, be less chummy. |
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Instead, he was invited on to The Today Show and Meet the Press for chummy interviews. |
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Having grown up in the French projects, or banlieues, the cops had never been chummy with a 6-foot-2 black guy like him. |
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What is the great chronicler of the Shoah doing being chummy with a collaborator? |
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The vox pop interviews on the street had an almost chummy tone to them. |
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Although I complied, I wasn't ready to be chummy with the officers. |
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From the outside, it seems a rootless, ephemeral sort of existence, evocative of the chummy, locker-room familiarity that was a hangover from playing days. |
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But behind the outwardly chummy relations between the two countries, it has been business as usual for Russian agents, who have continued to spy on their former Cold War foes. |
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They sat down and had one of their old chummy talks until an unmentionably late hour. |
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Good intentions sometimes lay bare a kind of chummy condescension. |
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When cocaine use was rising in the early 2000s, the only policy change for Blair was to get chummy with Britpop, Britart, and Cool Britannia: the cocaine trade's biggest customers. |
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Some people contend that women are socialized to be more ethical than men, and others retort that women are just as corruptible but less tested, as they are outside the chummy networks where corruption festers. |
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His father meanwhile had enraged much of the unionist grassroots, already unsettled over the new power-sharing Stormont regime, with his chummy relationship with former IRA commander and Sinn Féin MP Martin McGuinness. |
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The upshot of the encounter was that we switched places: Reuben stayed back in the room to get chummy with the lizard, and I headed down to the beach. |
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It will get chummy with Microsoft over Scott McNealy's dead body. |
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Apparently they were pretty chummy after all. |
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Regardless of whether our leaders are chummy or chagrined with one another, however, the countries continue to maintain their special relationship. |
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Here's what: they have both conquered the charts across the world, sold trillions of records and regularly get chummy with Jay Z. So, clearly, the next step is to make a record together! |
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If you're not so chummy with her but think you should have made the guest list, get a friend who's invited to pal up to the hostess and do a little digging. |
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Which makes the engaging and kindhearted Chummy all the more remarkable and original. |
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