Sentences with phrase «fag packet»

The phrase "fag packet" is a slang term typically used in British English. It refers to a small piece of paper or packaging typically used to hold cigarettes. It can also be used as a way to describe something that is very small or imprecise, often in reference to measurements or calculations done quickly and carelessly. Full definition
You can't do it in the way Cameron seems to want to do it on the back of fag packet
Most of our understanding of graphic images - the pictures of decaying teeth and corpses in the morgue which are now slapped on fag packets - are that they affect you at first but you quickly learn to ignore them.
«I am open to the idea of greater scrutiny of legislation by English MPs... but we can't do it in a back of the envelop, fag packet way,» he said.
written in crayon on a crumpled fag packet.
I doubt that anyone working out their predictions and permutations for the remainder of the system, from the team of analysts with a supercomputer to man with a pencil and the back of a fag packet, expected West Ham to take anything out of yesterday's game.
But his plan, requiring draft laws to be put before Parliament by January, was opposed by Labour, which condemned it as «a back of a fag packet solution».
One senior Tory said it was «an appalling waste of # 600million of taxpayers» money» and a «deal done on the back of a fag packet».
Mr Clegg replied: «I spent my time getting rid of ideas that these overexcited, juvenile characters lurking in some back office dreamt up on the back of a fag packet
The chairman of the Yes Scotland campaign, Dennis Canavan, has dismissed the No parties» pledge to grant further devolution as looking like, «something written on the back of a fag packet».
The union's deputy leader, Kevin Courtney, has described it as a non-manifesto policy which had been «written on the back of a fag packet».
The union's deputy leader, Kevin Courtney, described it as a non-manifesto policy which had been «written on the back of a fag packet».
I haven't cut anything out yet, this is all very much done on the back of a fag packet at the moment.
The Community Legal Service (CLS) was a slogan dreamt up on the back of a fag packet by Paul Boateng MP in 1995.

Phrases with «fag packet»

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