Like Ostade's yokels, the topers of Brouwer's Antwerp frequent a lower sort of tavern than those of Teniers and Steen. |
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She confirmed my suspicions of country folk being idiotic yokels as correct. |
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Well, guess what kids, if the beef industry goes, it's not just going to be the country yokels that are out of a job. |
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They paraded: yokels, a boy dressed as a watering can, a Mickey Mouse, a couple of Cossacks. |
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The song's condescension towards yokels is reminiscent of professional investors' disdain for their retail counterparts. |
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Maybe you think we're being a little hard on the people of this town, by calling them yokels and inferring that they're nothing more than a bunch of undereducated rubes. |
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So typical of these yokels to make such a tasteless error of judgment. |
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Following Shakespeare's plot closely, he gives us absconding lovers, local amdram yokels and bands of woodlanders led by the supernatural Sylvia and Angel. |
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Soviet propaganda portrayed the western Ukrainians as brutal, reactionary yokels. |
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Don't be surprised if your contacts lack a southern accent: many Atlantans grew up outside the South, or were told not to sound like yokels as children. |
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But as the new parliament, well stocked with what many educated Egyptians regarded as bearded yokels, fell into bickering and grandstanding, a backlash began to build. |
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We gazed like yokels at the shops and what to us seemed to be brilliantly lit stores containing articles which were completely beyond our understanding. |
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The officials took them for simple yokels or mad and left them alone, allowing them to continue with their illegal activities. |
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