Sentences with phrase «gallic shrugging»
-- Replete with some elaborate eyebrow - waggling and a healthy dose of Gallic shrugging, Joey Barton «s attempts to ingratiate himself with the Marseille media become an instant YouTube classic
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Uttered with a typical Gallic shrug, it also implies «let's not try to say one wine is better than another; let's underst...
It is bad enough for Arsenal fans when there is a transfer window open and we have to wait and wait without the club spending money while Arsene Wenger gives a gallic shrug of the shoulders and tells us that he really is working hard but there is just nobody out there, except that all of the other clubs in the Premier League and around Europe seem to be able to track down these shy and elusive creatures called professional footballers.
I am sure that the Arsenal and France striker Olivier Giroud was just trying to diffuse the situation, perhaps with a typical Gallic shrug of the shoulders, but I am not so sure how well his words will be received by his Arsenal team mates, or by the manager for that matter.
In his heyday as a global movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger usually played characters with super generic Anglo names — a Gallic shrug on the matter of onscreen credibility, since it was a given that he could only ever look and sound exactly like an Austrian - born former bodybuilder.
What's the opposite of a Gallic shrug?
An ironic Gallic shrug to the question on all our lips: OK so what now?
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To be honest I was getting to the point in this summer transfer window when I started thinking that any signing would do for Arsenal, as long as Arsene Wenger got his finger out and did something other than his usual Gallic Frenchman's shrug while complaining about how hard it was to find players even though every other club in the Premier League seemed to be having no trouble.