| Mary was preparing the dried meat, which she intended to boil along with the locust-beans in our tin-pot. |
| Obviously it helps David Cameron, George Osborne and their tin-pot Government are plunging so swiftly in public favour. |
| Which is why I loathe this growing wave of poppy fascism, whereby tin-pot dictators deride nonwearers as insulters of the dead. |
| I can imagine the tin-pot leaders of some of the dodgier African nations rubbing their hands in expectation of this newly announced hand-out. |
| I was about to lead him aft, but his eye caught sight of a scuttlebutt, and the tin-pot on its head. |
| It was a great comfort to turn from that chap to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat. |
