Sentences with phrase «straight bat»

I'm less hopeful than some on Ozil signing though — he's played a very straight bat on his way to a lucrative free transfer exit so far.

Say what you like about the Electoral Commission but it has always played things with a pretty straight bat.

Balls put forward an unsettlingly out - of - character straight bat.

Treasury Minister David Gauke, an old mucker from my Brent days, plays a chaarcteristically straight bat.

Where the main plot plays things with a pretty straight bat, it's here that Yakuza explores its sillier side: in one case a shy dominatrix asks you for lessons in assertiveness; in another, you'll coach a boy band on how to appeal to a more mature audience.

That is why the press hate Wenger, he plays with a straight bat, never flinches and feeds them bullshit answers to bullshit questions — exactly what they deserve.

It has now taken on a life of its own as variously his arbitrarily decided value and the price Levy placed on him and is capriciously raising against poor old financially doped Manchester, playing off a straight bat, City.

Sometimes it's better to play a straight bat to the usual questions.

, a flock of seven sheep who munched through most of the cricket bags in a village club changing room and a publican who could still hold a straight bat after downing several pints of Scrumpy.

People like Michael Dugher, Gloria De Piero, John Spellar and Conor McGinn are playing a straight bat.

Its not often BT plays an intro with a straight bat, but this is one of those occasions.

The multiplayer embellishes the supplementary component but otherwise plays a straight bat, while zombies bridges the gap to retain the whimsical side.

Heartland are not playing a straight bat.

However, with the sharp shift in political opinion on climate change in Australia, coupled with the fact that Rupert Murdoch last year switched sides in the global warming debate, I had expected The Australian to start playing a straighter bat on the issue.