Sentences with phrase «of blagging»

He too, has a masters degree in the art of blagging!

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Once blended and chilled it comes out of the pastry blag too thick and cracks.

if we lose ozil an sanchez he will just blag someone else from big club, he is still very respected and not without his shrewd forms of persuasion.

She cites Piers Morgan's bragging about blagging and asks Brooks: was this a part of the NOTW internal culture because everybody was doing it?

The suppliers of the information are generally private investigators, the report finds, who obtain their information by «blagging» - pretending to be someone they are not - or through contacts with corrupt employees in companies.

While some of the reports about Mr Brown concern phone - hacking, many others are instances of «blagging» where someone tries to access information by acting or impersonation.

John Prescott used parliamentary privilege to directly accuse the Times editor John Witherow of lying to the Leveson inquiry, following the revelations from the whistleblower John Ford, who claimed he was employed during Witherow's tenure on the Sunday Times to blag bank records.

The trial of Tommy Sheridan cast new light on the News of the World's use of private detectives who have been convicted of illegal phone hacking and «blagging» confidential data.

He told Sue Akers — the Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner who is leading the phone - hacking and email - hacking investigations — that three senior Sunday Times journalists, whom he named, were aware of the «blagging» techniques used to access his personal details.

Yesterday, The Sunday Times carried a story which said he had been accused — in a previous job — of hiring a private investigator to «blag» the bank details of the Conservative donor Michael Ashcroft.

I form my opinions through ownership, not by blagging 10 minute test drives of cars I can't afford to own.

Contemporary reports bemoaned the loss of tactility when Porsche switched to water - cooling, but I think that rose - tinted spectacles must have been the 996 launch blag.

Managing to blag a pass to Aston Martin Racing's hospitality on the Friday night meant best behaviour, but for the Saturday evening during the race, one of my friends had hit the jackpot, managing to book the Restaurant des Hunaudières located on the Mulsanne Straight.

Think about the themes in your book and where else it might sell; in local cafes, gift shops, farmers markets, local B&B's... Since Cinema Lumière is set partly in a one - seated cinema, I blagged wall space in three of the (vaguely local) picturehouses to put up posters.

We've blagged MoneySavers six bottles of wine from Naked Wines if you switch both gas and electricity via uSwitch.

Use the link to buy a car breakdown policy by Wednesday 31 October and we've blagged you 15 months» cover for the price of 12 - costing # 48.31.

In terms of his creative process, he adds: «When I'm not blagging it, I sketch everything out first, get it all right in my head using either isometric or graph paper, I then digitise the pieces once I've got it all worked out.

The article by Milo Yannopolous takes a look at the «social media gurus, a rag - tag crew of blood - sucking hucksters who are infesting companies of all sizes, on both sides of the Atlantic, blagging their way into consultancy roles and siphoning off valuable recession - era marketing spend to feed their comic book addictions.»

One minor consequence of the recent phone hacking scandal in England is an increase in the use of the term «blagging,» new to me.

In the stuffy words of the old (not updated) OED definition: a scrounger, a bluffer, a cadger; smooth talking is the theme here — to blag — origin uncertain, like all the best words, but maybe related to French blague, or joke.

which addressed the growing concern of the use of «blagging» by private investigators and others to obtain personal information from sources such as insiders at banks and mobile telephone companies.

«It's a photograph of [model] Sara Stockbridge's mouth and is an ex-display image taken from Vivienne Westwood's shop», says the owner, which reveals a) he and his partner are into fashion and b) they're not afraid to blag — even from a Dame.