After going backwards at the election and losing ground in opinion polls since, Opposition MPs are cranky, fractious and looking for answers. |
He was getting fractious and crabby while I was getting panicky because I knew there was something else and I couldn't remember what it was. |
The youngest children get fractious and older family members get irritable trying to keep the peace. |
One potential course would be a breakdown of central control and a return to fractious regionalism. |
For all the region's fractious history, its transformation of the range from battle ground to recreation area occurred surprisingly early. |
The management is difficult, the people get pretty fractious, and it starts feeling like the early years when one is in Opposition. |