How To Use Gaff In A Sentence

The gaffer is such a good manager that he is bound to attract interest from bigger clubs.
The new gaff is now worth 400,000. The Sun
This was no obvious gaffe as it would have been had it emanated from the lips of George Bush, oh no, this was perhaps a "knowing casualism". Look, Obama just doesn't make gaffes, OK?
He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round.
Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.

Some sailing on a friend's Soling and on a wooden, gaff-rigged boat that we've borrowed. Journal for 31 December 1999
It was an embarrassing gaffe by any standards. Times, Sunday Times
Shandy Gaff is made with equal parts of beer and ginger ale.
The gaffer said he'd been fined for not doing the contract on time.
Both men, though, look set to make bigger names for themselves as gaffers than they did as players.
It looked ominous for Blues' new gaffer with five minutes on the clock. The Sun
And Joe Biden is going to make some kind of gaffed and the Republicans are going to try to use it against them. CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2008
We replaced it with the gooseneck from the gaff of the storm trysail, and the second gooseneck broke short off inside fifteen minutes of use, and, mind you, it had been taken from the gaff of the storm trysail, upon which we would have depended in time of storm. Chapter 2
The gaffer made me captain at the start of the season and I want to be back out there helping the lads get back up the league.
So this gaff is all the reporters fault for being insecure? Think Progress » President Bush To Legally Blind Reporter: ‘Are You Going to Ask That Question with Shades On?’
To gaff a trap, you need to come at it against the tide so you can create some slack on the line.
He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.
At the same time, they called the gaff reprehensible, but that's not all. CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2006
ACOSTA: During the primaries, Obama got tagged with the label elitist after a series of gaffes that suggested a lack of empathy for blue-collar voters. CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008
BILL SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, Carol, it was the gaffe of the week and maybe the campaign when John Kerry made what he called a blundered joke about President Bush, which came out as an insult to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2006
Dope and cocaine have become accessible to the grips, the gaffers and the best boys.
I find it interesting that both "Obama gaffes," from the first and the most recent debates, occured with questions where he was the first to answer, followed by Hillary Clinton who swept in and "whomped" him - proving his inexperience. John Edwards Doesn't Exist. Why? Because He Just Doesn't.
Link joe biden, is a gaffe machine. i remain commited to hillary clinton. she would have been able to bring this country together. i believe she is not done yet. do not rule her out. john mc cain will be the next president. — deborah Reaction in Scranton to Biden News - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
The consul's comments were a major diplomatic gaffe.
The cutter lay like a log on the water, the reef-points rattling on the main-sail like a shower of small shot; and, every time he heard the sound, the man at the helm would raise his eyes aloft, and, fixing them steadily on the gaff-topsail for a minute or two, turn round and scan the horizon; and then, walking to the quarter, moisten his forefinger in his mouth, and hold it above his head. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
Barely ninety minutes after being given the boot by that bogtrotter sergeant, she was sipping coffee in the RTE studios in Donnybrook, yakking to Gaffney while some other guy did sound checks on her mike. The Priest
The gobby singer posted an apology on her website after her interview gaffe. The Sun
The new gaffer's come in with his own way of thinking and it's totally different. Times, Sunday Times
Ms Royal has been damaged by a succession of foreign-policy gaffes in recent weeks, which have lent her campaign an air of amateurism.
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He then ran through a series of gaffes Obama has made over the years before settling on his favorite one: the president pronouncing the word "corpsman" as "corpseman. Sean Hannity On Obama: 'I Don't Think He's That Smart' (VIDEO)
Old gaffers recited love-poetry, and made the evening shadows creep with more tales about a Greek-tongued demon of the hills.
He noticed that one of the old gaffers had a bluish lump under his right ear (he would forget his face but he would never forget his ear) and the girl had a fine golden chain around her bare neck.
Now a gaffe by the Highways Agency and the county council has left Lancastrians open to gibes from their Yorkshire neighbours.
He said: 'The gaffer just felt a bit let down. The Sun
With that apercu, the President joined a long line of gaffe-making chief executives that includes Ronald Reagan ("We begin bombing in five minutes") and Jimmy Carter (who told congressmen that, if Sen. Edward Kennedy were to run against him, "I'll whip his ass"). President Bush’s Swearing Ceremony - Tuned In - TIME.com
We are talking about not only an inadvertent or incorrect disclosure, but blowing the gaff on the investigation.
The jibes that he was nothing more than a gaffe-prone, tub-thumping populist hurt because they were perilously close to the truth.
The misconceived pre-publicity for the series blew the gaff on this one, so unlike the main supporting characters, we knew all along that she wasn't out of her mind, just out of her body.
We have added seven players, the gaffer has freshened things up and kept competition for places at a premium.
The inshore division recognizes eight species: croaker, black drum, flounder, gafftop catfish, gar, redfish, sheepshead, and speckled trout.
The owner's bravery in recognising the nom-de-gaff is outstanding and to be aplauded. Harbouring Thoughts
I had good days and bad days, and it's fair to say the gaffer can dish out the hairdryer treatment. The Sun
One can still operate collaboratively while being called boss or gaffer. Times, Sunday Times
David Carr's first quarter slant pass to Jabar Gaffney deflected into the hands of Marlon McCree, who returned the interception 35 yards to the Texan.
The careers of three ministers are teetering on the brink after a series of gaffes though. The Sun
He is disarmingly straightforward about his goofs and gaffes, of which he had plenty during his first go-round.
When the crossjack was replaced by a gaff, the larger vessels started the square mainsail, and became "brigs," while the smaller kept the spanker as their mainsail, and became "brigantines," so that a genuine old brigantine is a brig without a square mainsail. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
Hopefully she will soon make another major gaffe and disappear back to the wilds, after sadly setting back the cause of women in American politics by decades. The Sun
I could be doing the sun coffee time cross word, cutting my toenails, making balls out of elastic bands the postman drops outside my gaff everyday.
THAT'S a nice bubble perm, gaffer. The Sun
So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans, Finnegans Wake
I could see guys taping in the windscreen with what looked like duct tape or gaffer tape. The Sun
He put the glass panel back in place, without being asked, and did a temporary seal with some gaffer tape. Times, Sunday Times
This cruising sloop features an unstayed gaff rig for simplicity.
She slugged down her glass and picked up her bag while Stan smiled at my gaffe. THE MANANA MAN
One's a millionaire, one has done really well and lives in Ireland, one of them has a big gaff in the New Town.
Dope and cocaine have become accessible to the grips, the gaffers and the best boys.
The captain gaffed the fish and hoisted it aboard - a 36 inch striped bass gasping on the non-slip grey deck. Aram Roston: Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City
But what gratified him most of all, I think, was the fact that before we had been aboard two days I had got Simpson, the sailmaker, at work upon an enormous jack-yard gaff-topsail for use in light winds, the only gaff-topsail that the schooner had hitherto possessed being a trumpery little jib-headed affair which she could carry in quite a strong breeze. Turned Adrift
Now he cannot wait for his first clash with his old gaffer as a coach. The Sun
This comes as a researcher named Laurent Gaffie points to fresh, unpatched flaws in Windows Vista and Windows 7. New security flaws unmasked in Vista, Windows 7
I had not heard "gaffle" and "butt hurt" before, by the way. "Thick as mince and a clatty bastit"
An extremly intricate knot orginally used for belaying the topgallant foresheets of a gaff-rigged China clipper, and now more commonly observed when trying to gen an old kite out of the cupboard under the stairs. The Meaning of Liff
Scarcely a second did they eye one another when crack! slap! they were at it, wing and gaffle. The Reckoning
And the WWF has not been without its problems: several accidents, lawsuits, bust-ups and gaffes all combining to give him some serious headaches in recent years.
Remember, a gaffe is when a politician says what they mean. Why You Should Vote For Scott Brown And Against Martha Coakley « Tai-Chi Policy
Even soldiers who sought to behave well in billets were not immune from gaffes.
And not just extras, gaffers and best boys either; she's apparently done this to several of her costars.
If you've ever watched the credits of a movie you've seen the word "gaffer"---he's the head electrictian on the set. Languagehat.com: THE MOST UNTRANSLATABLE WORD.
We have had four weeks to prepare for it and the gaffer's got us geed up for this game. The Sun
I wondered whether you had any advice for a person prone to huge faux pas and social gaffes. Times, Sunday Times
This gaff is not to be used for fishing, but to be hung as a collector's piece. Love-Struck with Heavy Metal
A gaff, a pugh, and a dip-net, all of which an old fisherman declared I could not sail without, were also put aboard. Sailing Alone Around the World
Sails named for parts of the ship include gaff sails, jib-headed sails, spritsails, and lateen and lugsails.
A man with a ladder has been round my gaff for the past three days.
Though she "gaffed" four times, it's clear she sees no connection between each instance other than how it could possibly benefit her politically. Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context"
The embarrassing gaffe was contained in a pledge to deliver apprenticeships. The Sun
The gaffers gave us a bonus in Burgdy and Claray.
Is she committing a social gaffe? Times, Sunday Times
Finally, the book suffers from an unfortunate number of errors which exceed the allowable limit for typographical gaffes.
I may have liked God when I was three, as I testified on the study wall, but He certainly wouldn't be very fond of me when He found out what I'd done to His gaff in Acton.
He took not a spark of interest in the gaming cocks we raised together to compete at the local contests and at the fair, and knew not a gaff from a cockspur. Richard Carvel — Complete
The "trysails" are gaff or jib-headed sails sometimes carried on the fore and main, as the spanker is carried on the mizzen. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
The gaffer deserves praise for the players he has brought in. Times, Sunday Times
At the boats side, those huge fins beat the water to a foam, before being gaffed aboard by the boats regular hand, Patrick.
Craftsman typically form Guilds and the guild members tend to keep their common craft as a well-guarded secret among themselves: not blowing the gaff is one of their rules of professional conduct.
Here, computer-illiterate small-time capitalists can commit gaffes, like holding the mouse upside down, without being seen.
I also did a fair amount of gaffing for the others - all on a boat where we were either pointing up at the skies or at the bottom of the trough of a giant wave or rolling from side to side.
The neighbouring gaff has been kicking up a stink after their sewers stopped working. The Sun
But now, this means there are builders all over the front of my gaff.
Another possible solution is to use gaffer tape to bind the tops of your socks to your legs. Times, Sunday Times
I made a real gaffe - I called his new wife 'Judy' which is the name of his ex-wife.
At first Pak Rabun reminded me of an old English gaffer.
To save time, the skipper eventually backed up to the fish, which was gaffed aboard in a flurry of foam.
This time next week, we'll be standing in the new gaff wondering where we're going to put everything, and waiting for the bed to be delivered.
Pan fish such as whiting, croaker, gafftop, sheepshead and others are year-round possibilities. The Daily News - News
I made a few gaffs due to my negligence, so hopefully you'll learn from my mistakes.
But the gaffer thought I'd looked all right in training and gave me the chance and I didn't want to let anyone down.
We didn't have any major events, but larger companies such as Freightliner, Timken and some textile companies have continued to cut back," said Jane Goode, job placement supervisor for the Commission's Gaffney Workforce Center. News | SJ | http://www.goupstate.com
The gaffer may have had his eye on a few bargains playing in the finals. The Sun
In order to eat, they had to hang out with gaffers and best boys!
When the gaffer arrived, he knew many of the players by name only.
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It is a luxurious gaff with seven reception rooms and Prince Michael is getting away with one of the best housing benefit scams in the land.
With the line angling downwards within 30 seconds I called it for a yellowfin or bigeye and told Richard to get his gloves out with the gaff and standby to gaff his first blue-water fish - a far cry from blue sharks!
The trip began with an exhibition game in Budapest, Hungary, where he called the Czech Republic "Czechoslovakia" and made a few other minor international hockey gaffes at a press conference where he clearly did not look comfortable. Kuklas Korner
When I came back from injury earlier this season, the gaffer took a chance on me and played me up front against Dundee United.
When pundits expected his verbal gaffes to mark him as unqualified, instead the bloopers raised his stature as a guy too tough to crack a sissified book.
Today the man who should not be named turned up at my gaff throwing stones at my window.
Gaffle raised a hand to Pintom's ear and whispered a short conversation.
John Gosden has a powerful squad of horses at his disposal again this season and the Manton trainer saddles a promising filly in Lurina in the Directa Gaffa Maiden Stakes.
So, naturally, if you slot a gaff through a fish it would feel something.
The gillie did not take up the gaff now, and my hopes were dashed, for it meant that he had recognised a kelt, which must be tailed. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
I can reach him with the gaff and eat him here in comfort.
There is absolutely no need to ever gaff a tope, it's an appalling thing to even consider.
After a contest of strenght between the hooked subject and myself, me being the victor, a deckhand "gaffed" the monstrosity on my line (aka: fucking hooked it with a long poll) and hauled it aboard. Ronin622 Diary Entry
The embarrassing technical gaffe was in the first episode of the new series. The Sun
I made a real gaffe - I called his new wife 'Judy' which is the name of his ex-wife.
One does not, however, use Hercules gut for nothing; the log was travelling swiftly, and I ventured to clap my rod-top down to and under the surface, thus saving my tackle, and being presently able to land and gaff my 10-lb. fresh-run salmon without risk or hurry. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
The selection gaffe stands out for its rarity value. Times, Sunday Times
As we had been expecting, the wind now drew round from the westward, fresh, though not so much so as to prevent our showing a jib-headed gaff-topsail to it. For Treasure Bound
As an antiques dealer myself, but not in the jewellery field, I'm in an ideal position to blow the gaff on this rather naive theory.
No. Drone got gaffled less than a quarter-klick from here, up in the ruins. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
And the 2013 calendar gaffe is just another episode that will leave them in despair. The Sun
Unfortunately for Urquhart, the only way to break through the media clamor is to have his most embarrassing gaffe resurrected. Tom Noyes: Glen Urquhart Struggles To Escape Shadow Of Christine O'Donnell
He said: 'The gaffer is very careful about who he brings in. The Sun
When we drew further from the shore, the wind increased, and the gaff-topsail was unbent, and a reef taken in the mainsail. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
The gaffer has spoken to the chairman and told me to just get on with organising everything.
The main lifting halyard uses a single revolving truck/pulley, while the yard arm and gaff halyards are suspended by marine grade stainless steel pulleys.
Somebody with such potential for embarrassing gaffes should forget about the White House. Times, Sunday Times
Often a media gaffe is not an isolated malapropism but a reflection of an executive's whole attitude.
The "dispirited" part is an obvious gaffe, but it seems that it's entirely possible to be a "conservative liberal," depending on what you mean by those terms. My campaign will be dispirited, because I'm a proud conservative liberal...
The Minister's gaffe came amidst a day of heightened pressure on all players involved in the saga.
Even with the occasional gaffe, marketers say placing products in movies is an increasingly important way to enhance exposure.
So was Friday's nonvote by the players a public relations gaffe, or prudent strategy? Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
You may want to start putting quotation maks around the word "flub" and "gaffe". Mitt Romney Wins Contest For Dumbest Obama-Osama Mixup Yet
Now he cannot wait for his first clash with his old gaffer as a coach. The Sun
Even his gaffes managed to raise sympathy among those who saw him as a feisty outsider amid the smarty-pants elites. Globe and Mail
He was well cool, and took us back, through the soviet style streets back to his gaff.
Blow, sweet breeze," said D----, half to himself, half aloud; and casting his eyes, alternately from the flying jib and foresail to the swelling gaff-topsail, stooped down and looked under the boom at the land. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
They must not be in contact, -- perhaps because gaffer will gossip with gammer, and youth and maid will toy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
The incident is the latest in a string of embarrassing security gaffes to affect the software giant.
The gaffer may have had his eye on a few bargains playing in the finals. The Sun
And the new gaffer has yet to win after two games. The Sun
Now he cannot wait for his first clash with his old gaffer as a coach. The Sun
Clarissa Gaff, a staff attorney with the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation in Alton, Ill., told HuffPost that her clients, Allen and Mary Pierson, became delinquent on their mortgage because of an extended HAMP trial modification that started in the spring of 2009. Treasury Department Says HAMP Doesn't Put People Into Default
The respectable and greatly - trusted Sam was letting off a series of wild howls which would have done credit to a penny-gaff Zulu, and was evidently very much out of temper about something. Many Cargoes
Angry anglers can stop sharpening their gaffs in anticipation of a major battle on the Lakes of Killarney.
But he said: 'The new gaffer has really got us going. The Sun
And in a way they should, because he often makes gaffes when he's actually trying to put people at ease. The Sun
Predicting a better period under Smith, he has been impressed by the new gaffer.
The crewman will use gaffs, lightly placed in the wing edges where it does no harm, to lift the fish in.
His gaffe yesterday came as a poll showed Labour is heading for election turmoil in marginal constituencies. The Sun
The first-person narrative moves gracefully between the literary present, in which Kear hopes to forestall Ashenden from turning out anything about Driffield and “blowing the gaff,” and the extraliterary past, when Ashenden knew the Driffields as neighbors and friends and spent many happy hours in their company. Archive 2009-04-01
The first rule of the gaff is never use one when a net will do. The Fine Art of Gaffing
The gaffer has not set me a specific target but I've set myself one to try and get at least ten goals this season. The Sun
Yesterday she carried bags of groceries ready to settle into her new gaff - and no doubt her old haunts. The Sun
A cute, but short, clip of goofs and gaffes from the season.
These gaffes can be attributed to his characteristic clumsiness.
They are great as a unit so although the gaffer won't be there he will be, if you know what I mean.
The gaffe was made at the annual dinner of the Perth Bar Association, in the regal splendour of the city's George Hotel.
ANOTHER of our other great footie columnists and an ex-England gaffer who is a master tactician. The Sun
Then the policemen find blood on a fishing gaff.
A gaffe that seems far more unfortunate involves Mr.McC. 's rigid distinction between epiphora and epistrophe. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
I got hold of the gaff-topsail yard and run it under his arms, and threw a rope over him, and sung out 'Hold on, Greenleaf! hold on, and we'll save you yet.' Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851
If elected he would be almost seventy as he took office; some spectacular gaffes during the campaign did not inspire confidence.
Another possible solution is to use gaffer tape to bind the tops of your socks to your legs. Times, Sunday Times
The Cultural Cold War contains some silly mistakes and some real gaffes.
Those who know his mindset and attention to such detail are unsurprised by his quick progression through youth ranks, particularly, his current international gaffer, Kerr.
The gaffer and the players kept asking if they could see it, so why not?
The gaffer may have had his eye on a few bargains playing in the finals. The Sun
Polls in the weeks since the first debate have been volatile, but several have put his party in second place ahead of Brown, who could fall even further after a gaffe in which he called a lifelong Labour supporter a bigot. News for Opelika-Auburn News
C47's can often be seen used in many different ways on a filmset and are most commonly used by gaffers, grips and electricians. British Blogs
And due to their lack of knowledge, users are also prone to potentially embarrassing gaffes, according to new research. The Sun
“Ay, ay, Gaffer Tramp, take awa yealdon, take awa low — hang the witch, and there will be less scathe amang us; mine owsen hae been reckan this towmont.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
As in all such debates, the principal goal is to avoid a gaffe which will make embarrassing headlines the next morning.
The rules were, to begin with, difficult to master, since, as a journalist, one's entire instinct was to blow the gaff.
I don't think "gaffer" fits the "respectful form of address to a professional". Languagehat.com: THE MOST UNTRANSLATABLE WORD.
GAFFNEY -- A Gaffney man who told reporters he was a Marine heroically rescued from a Cambodian POW camp in 1970 in fact served only 10 months in the Navy and was court-martialed, according to military records obtained by the Heroes or Villains?
Gilz came back to my gaff for his supper last night.
Some decent sound proofing for his new gaff would probably be the neighbourly thing to do. The Sun
I kind of idolized Mike growing up," says Robert C. "Bob" Gaffaney. Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND
I know of one jewfish caught that was 18 kg and another angler had two quite nice Spanish mackerel to the wall but was unable to gaff them.
But buying her own gaff will save a fortune on hotels. The Sun
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself. Shelfari:
Coastguard spokesman Tony Wood said ‘The angler had hooked a big conger eel and was trying to gaff it when he was hit by the wave and swept away.’
I had to step up and score the last one and the gaffer was happy to give me the job. The Sun
As he lives up the road from my new gaff, it made sense for him to carry out the bulk of the job. Times, Sunday Times
A small hand gaff is a good idea if you plan on landing a fish for dinner. How to Catch Fall Stripers: It's Not Easy, but It's Worth It
I saw the familiar black hull, the bowsprit, the gaff rig, the extraordinary long boom that overhung the stern by a good ten feet, the varnished spars, and the wood rings that held the mainsail to the mast.
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The author eventually acclimatizes, and his entertaining gaffes become less frequent. The Daily Star > News Feed
The portents are that, despite all the problems, the outcome is a foregone conclusion and he will not need to call in the removal men next year for a flit to his new £3.5m gaff.
The new gaffer has taken four points from his first two games. The Sun
It will be interesting to see if this proves, once again, the truth of the old saying that in Washington, D.C. the definition of a "gaff" is slipping up and telling the truth. Congresswoman says some senators 'Neanderthals'
Yesterday she carried bags of groceries ready to settle into her new gaff - and no doubt her old haunts. The Sun
The gaffer has worked hard with me and I've finally hit a bit of form now. The Sun
But you're apparently so beguiled by the rest of it -- especially the assurances at the very beginning -- that you are almost willing to forgive that wee cruciverbal gaffe. Skunkfeathers
The gaffer is also the one who selects the club 's transfer targets. The Sun

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