Sentences with phrase «popularity stakes»

"popularity stakes" refers to the competition or ranking of how popular someone or something is. It's like a race or contest to see who is the most liked or well-known. Full definition
Fair or not, she won't be much missed by lawyers — although in popularity stakes she still ranks higher than Chris Grayling.
Up there with Julius Caesar and Hamlet in the political popularity stakes for cartoonists is Macbeth.
A crackdown on tax evasion is probably only just ahead of a crackdown on avoidance in the political popularity stakes.
And if both get injured, there's still Chambers, although he seems to have faded a bit in the Wenger popularity stakes.
So high in the popularity stakes, it would appear that these little tinkers have also been involved in highly competitive bake offs and come up trumps!
Mazzarri was always up against it in the popularity stakes.
David Cameron has slipped behind his party in the popularity stakes for the first time, according to a new poll.
Politicians who have dipped their toes into the world of micro-blogging are trailing far behind Brown in the popularity stakes.
The SNP leader remains ahead of Gray in the popularity stakes, according to Scotland on Sunday's exclusive YouGov poll.
In the US it ranks as high as number two in the popularity stakes while in the UK it is constantly ranked in the top five.
With Kennel Club registrations really taking off, and rocketing their place in the popularity stakes to unprecedented levels.
So far as the British public is concerned, repeated surveys put the legal profession low down in the popularity stakes.
It's easy to see fidget spinners proving more of a Pokemon Go than a yo - yo in the enduring, widespread - popularity stakes, so this is one idea that's on the skids before it even makes it to the shelves.
Last year the cactus print pipped the pineapple in the popularity stakes, but it would appear the tables have turned.
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