Sentences with phrase «slanging match»

Chat about stuff other than your book, reply to everyone, and don't get drawn into slanging matches with hostile reviewers.

Lots of the more immature trolls turning conversations into slanging matches.

Leave.EU and Vote Leave have frequently engaged in slanging matches in recent months as they vied for the Electoral Commission's designation as the official Brexit campaign.

Politics just seems to be a constant slanging match between Labour, the Tories, and the little Lib Dems tucked at the back.

I will not enter into any more slanging matches with you, because it is pointless and futile to both of us and the rest of the «justarsenal» followers.

The controversial midfielder, who joined QPR in August after being placed on the transfer list by Newcastle following a public slanging match with the club's board, has now said his departure was inevitable after he led a dressing - room revolt over an argument over a bonus structure.

It annoys me greatly that it can be treated as a «bitchfest» as if it were nothing more than a petty squabble over something of no importance, a mere slanging match.

The prime minister came worryingly close to a «he - said - she - said» slanging match when he took to the airwaves a day later to insist that he distinctly remembered the deal being about AV.

Thanks Tim - definitely keen to avoid unproductive slanging matches, but i just thought you have been displaying unnecessary sour grapes recently, when considering as you note, that you suport UKIP policy on this, a little generosity might be useful if only to put pressure on your mob!

«No personal abuse, no personal slanging matches, just serious political ideas to improve the lives of ordinary people in Britain.»

Despite the occasional harsh outburst during the 1945 - 1950 parliament from Labour cabinet members such as Nye Bevan that the Tories were «lower than vermin», the election campaign saw something of a change of temper and did not turn into a bitter slanging match.

In this context, referendums can mirror the worst aspects of representative politics — top - down slanging matches between senior politicians, seen through the standard media lens of an election where only conflict between leading figures — and who's «in or out» — is seen to matter.

Clegg said: «I don't think anybody wants — I am sure Andrew Mitchell doesn't want — this to descend into some long - standing slanging match between politicians and the police.

Shakoor Ranas place in cricket history will be as the umpire who was involved in the infamous slanging match with Mike Gatting which stopped the Faisalabad.

The Elder Scrolls is a series that can easily be reduced into the context of a playground slanging match.

It's pitched as a debate, but it ends up as an eloquent slanging match, in which each side competes to prove that the other's sources are more corrupt than their own.

None of us really has time to moderate this kind of stuff, and frankly we resent the time it takes to police the various slanging matches.

John0711, Why bring Wenger into this?It seems that a debate can not be held unless it's a slanging match about our current manager between two opposing camps.

I have never got close to understanding this «mediocrity» «delusional» «4th place trophy» slanging match that a couple of dozen regulars on here frequently indulge themselves with, something which is thrown at other contributors who have a different opinion, more often not when other arguments fail.

«There was a bit of a slanging match in the changing room.»

, im not getting into a slanging match with you as im one southern boy who actually wants man u to win the league that is until we step up to the crease?

It's that tired, old «slanging match» that has led Dee to conclude that she might well vote UKIP next year and give her support to Nigel Farage.

While Ian Duncan Smith has been engaged in a slanging match with John Major, his department has been compounding rather than alleviating social struggles such as worklessness or stagnant social mobility.

ON THE subject of flaming, it seems there are at least some people who want to use the Net to stir up thoughtful debate, rather than simply to indulge in a slanging match.

«But there are still guys at Realtime we want to be friends with, so we don't want to get dragged into a slanging match,» he added.

It's degenerated into a slanging match, a fine outcome if you don't have facts on your side.

Of course this slanging match happens because of the on / off nature of climate change.