Sentences with phrase «dudgeon when»

But imagine their high dudgeon when the entire taxi market morphs into one where every single taxi company and every single Uberite gouges fares during peak periods and any other time they can get away with it.

Lady Bird will quit the club in high dudgeon when she's overlooked for all the main parts in a production of Shakespeare's Tempest, but meanwhile has found a boyfriend in Danny (Lucas Hedges), a sweet young man who tells her he respects her too much to touch her breasts.

Not exact matches

When InBev asked candidate firms how much extra work they'd be willing to do without compensation and how much longer than the company's already astonishing 120 - day payment terms agencies would be willing to wait for their money, the ad biz was in high dudgeon.

Asking people to join is great, but if you have a full - scale legislative action module, it's even better to have an action alert posted — people are on a page because they're interested in the subject, so a standing alert (i.e., a link that impells them to «Tell Congress to Stamp Out Blue Fizzies») lets you catch them when they're in high dudgeon.

When we last left Bilbo, Thorin and the company of dwarves at the end of Hobbit 2, they had succeeded in severely hacking off Smaug the Dragon, who set off in high dudgeon to torch the nearest human settlement.

But those in high dudgeon have to come to grips with reality — this is what happens when scientists and institutions debase the coin of the realm.