How To Use Hackney In A Sentence

With 38% of the population of Hackney surviving on benefits, few homes are equipped with flatscreen TVs. Top Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney residents
But he insists on painting a picture with the same old hackneyed images and rancid cliches about salt-of-the-earth heartlanders and morally vacant or cowardly coastal cosmopolitans.
There was a panic in Dhurrumtolla; a "ticca-gharry" -- the shabby oblong box on wheels, dignified in municipal regulations as a hackney carriage -- was running away. Hilda A Story of Calcutta
Taxi licensing is dealt with by local authorities and Ribble Valley Council currently has 26 operators, 66 private hire vehicles, 49 hackney cabs and 81 drivers on its books.
It's a trite and hackneyed old platitude - but sometimes, you do just have to stop and look at what's around you.

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But the key to stock market glory isn't contained in some hackneyed phrase.
Sketching the plot of the film calls to mind any number of archetypal/hackneyed tales of fraternal rivalry, flight from danger, coming of age, and so on.
The mind tires with the second or third hackneyed phrase. The Times Literary Supplement
A hackney carriage plate allows drivers to pick up passengers who flag them down in the street or from ranks in the city.
It should have come to London but the Hackney Empire has delayed its opening until January at the earliest, by which time Hall's travelling players will have moved on.
I'd agree that it is head-and-shoulders above most sitcoms but it follows hackneyed gender traditions (men are blokeish and committment-phobic; women are insecure and needy).
One means was, of course, new taxation, which was imposed on salt, stamps, hackney coaches, and, especially, on land.
There are plenty of hackney cabs and coaches too; gigs, phaetons, large-wheeled tilburies, and private carriages - rather of a clumsy make, and not very different from the public vehicles, but built for the heavy roads beyond the city pavement.
When she went away, I called a hackney-coach for her, and getting behind it, went home with her to her lodgings. Valerie
By comparison, eighteenth-century painters are more hackneyed, whether producing ‘classical’ landscapes or topographical views.
The action is hackneyed - the slo-mo martial arts stuff was neat the first time, but it was already getting old by the time it was re-used in The Matrix Reloaded.
The trot, sir '' (striking his Bucephalus with his spurs), --- ` ` the trot is the true pace for a hackney; and, were we near a town, I should like to try that daisy-cutter of yours upon a piece of level road (barring canter) for a quart of claret at the next inn. '' Rob Roy
As well as a herb garden planted at the restaurant, with varieties such as caraway, anise and chervil, these Hackney front yards and parks serve as Viajante's other "garden. Sniffing Out Local Gems
“And here is my carriage,” he added, calling a hackney cab. The Commission in Lunacy
His loyalty to his party is in stark contrast to the actions of his old colleague Brian Sedgemore, the former MP for Hackney South who chose the middle of the election to defect to the Liberal Democrats.
His speech seems to have no original ideas, furthermore it's full of hackneyed and stereotyped expressions.
Leaving these fleeter means of getting over the ground, or of depositing oneself upon it, to those who like them, by hackney – coach stands we take our stand. Sketches by Boz
hackneyed phrases
Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
Both movies find fresh, unhackneyed historical footage.
In the 1670's, the city's Corporation received complaints about the traffic congestion caused by hackney coaches.
The plot of the film is just a hackneyed boy-meets-girl scenario.
If only they had used biblical language at least it would have sounded less trite, hackneyed and cliched.
Over the same period, the number of hackneys has fallen from more than 3,650 to less than 1,260.
With a dozen or so other young people aged from 10 to 26 from Hackney, Becker agreed to review for the Observer the new four-part Channel 4 drama Top Boy, which starts tomorrow. Top Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney residents
History should be about forcing people to challenge their perceptions, not reinforcing hackneyed stereotypes of the past.
That the "Phoebus" is hackneyed, and a school-boy image, is an accidental fault, dependent on the age in which the author wrote, and not deduced from the nature of the thing. Biographia Literaria
Walthamstow is like any other anonymous London suburb flourishing from the overspill of city dwellers from areas such as Islington and Hackney.
So you may find yourself glad when a hackneyed sketch about a snobbish country wife turns into tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
His argument that the media invariably and inaccurately portrays single women as pathetic is a little hackneyed.
His first track sets the pace for the entire set, as he subtilizes the high drama of the famous c-sharp minor prelude which has become so hackneyed, often turned into a cartoon of itself owing to its own wide popularity.
Parts of Greater London have also been badly affected: Hackney, Kensington and Chelsea, and Sutton – have suffered the largest increases in the number of long-term jobseeker's allowance claimants. TUC survey says new year outlook is bleak for unemployed
Secondly, it was full to overflowing of hackneyed sexist stereotypes.
The 20,000ft Hackney Downs Studios is a hell of a space to work with, and it's commendable that this quickfire festival has opted for a fresh approach to filling it as opposed to traipsing down the weary old route of lights, plastic reindeer, carolling, and the obligatory fat man in red suit. This week's new events
[Hackney] played it conservative the first day, exploded the second day with a heavy tailrace bag, held tough on day 3 with a four-fish, 4-03 bag, then brought home the trophy with a day's-best 5-06 limit. Hackney Tops Iaconelli In Forrest Wood Cup
Before him walked two footmen, leading by the bridle a white hackney, covered with a housing of blue velvet, besprinkled with flowers-de-luce and gold tissue.
Or consider mankind's capacity for giving hackneyed phrases a graphic new twist. Times, Sunday Times
Efforts were made at home to procure for him the position of Secretary of Legation in London, which drew from him the remark, when they came to his knowledge, that he did not like to have his name hackneyed about among the office-seekers in Washington. Washington Irving
The initial combat scenes are well directed, chilling and very unsettling, but the events that follow, the courtroom sequences in particular, are hackneyed and dull.
That is all well and good but constant repetition and even his most recherché songs become hackneyed.
Image now to yourself this illustrious Cavalier mounted on his _hackney_; and see if it does not bring before you the Church, bestrid by some lumpish minister of state, who turns and winds it at his pleasure. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
That I was inclined to look beyond the hackneyed was a clear signal sent out. The Times of India
Sir Roger told me further, that he looked upon it to be very good for a man whilst he stayed in town, to keep off infection, and that he got together a quantity of it upon the first news of the sickness being at Dantzick: when of a sudden, turning short to one of his servants who stood behind him, he bid him call a hackney-coach, and take care it was an elderly man that drove it. The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator'
Together they constitute an unhackneyed commentary on a creative force who contrived to remain both forbidding and inescapable.
She brings him back, and, after casting two or three gracious glances across the way, which are either intended for us or the potboy (we are not quite certain which), shuts the door, and the hackney – coach stand is again at a standstill. Sketches by Boz
You'd feel for all the other taxi drivers and hackneys, particularly those working at night.
As for the hackneyed old argument that this is about oil, bah!
Or consider mankind's capacity for giving hackneyed phrases a graphic new twist. Times, Sunday Times
In every case, Mozart was sharper, unhackneyed, and always threw in a little surprise.
But a closer look reveals there's more to this course than a hackneyed phrase.
The references to patriotic duty are predictable and hackneyed. Times, Sunday Times
One hackney cab driver, who asked not to be named, said: ‘I know the prices are extortionate - but I have no option.’
The final hour has long past on the horror spoof and, sadly, all that's left is hackneyed jokes and trite dialogue.
The program contains enough that is unhackneyed to satisfy more selective collectors.
Morbid states of passion, the hectic bloom of fever, heady perfumes of the Orient and the tropics; the bitter-sweet blossom of love; forced fruits of the hot-house (_serres chaudes_); the iridescence of standing pools; the fungoidal growths of decay; such are some of the hackneyed metaphors which render the impression of this neo-romantic poetry. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Their books use hackneyed plotlines, stock characters, and omission of inconvenient facts.
`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story
The initial combat scenes are well directed, chilling and very unsettling, but the events that follow, the courtroom sequences in particular, are hackneyed and dull.
The neat, middle-class enclaves of Edinburgh or Leeds, with their almost wholly middle-class streets and playgrounds, offer a different life from scruffier, moresocially mixed but increasingly gentrified Hackney or Lambeth. Is the British middle class an endangered species?
Whatever a hackney carriage may be classed as, it is still a car that carries a limited number of passengers who are paying for the privilege of being chauffeured from door to door.
Bibliophile Stalker interviews Ellen Datlow, Editor of (among many, many other things) the upcoming anthology The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: "It's not that the genres have weaknesses or strengths but that the purveyors of genres write well or badly and use the genres ambitiously or in hackneyed ways. March 2008
The most hackneyed device may seem brilliantly original to him, the stalest stage trick as fresh as if just hot from the brain; and jokes that deterred the dove from returning to the ark arride him vastly. Without Prejudice
Hackneyed and sterile, the Rockwell is ideal if you are looking for vastly overpriced drinks served by offhand waiters with pathetically slow service.
It is a tribute to the quality of his unwavering line that neither has become half as hackneyed as it should have done.
And ‘hackneyed cliché’ is itself a pleonasm.
I moved down here from Hackney because I thought it would be a better place to bring my child up.
These were the planters of the neighbouring country, many of whom came nightly to visit the theatre, and this from very considerable distances; forming such an audience as cannot be seen elsewhere in this hackney-coach age; indeed, to look on so many fine horses, with their antique caparisons, piquetted about the theatre, recalled the palmy days of the Globe and Bear-garden. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
Sir ROGER told me further, that he looked upon it to be very good for a man whilst he staid in town, to keep off infection, and that he got together a quantity of it upon the first news of the sickness being at _Dantzick_: When of a sudden, turning short to one of his servants who stood behind him, he bid him call a hackney-coach, and take care it was an elderly man that drove it. The Coverley Papers
Or maybe we will criticize it for being boring or hackneyed.
Anna Seward, for example, found Smith's dramatisation of her own life in her writing deeply improper and unfeminine, lampooning Smith for what she perceived as the improper washing of her dirty laundry in public and characterised her sonnets as 'everlasting lamentables [and] hackneyed scraps of dismality'. [ Charlotte (Turner) Smith (1749-1806)
To make the play less hackneyed, the teenagers also impersonate a number of other characters, including a yardie pimp with whom both are involved, and sundry members of their own or another, hostile posse.
Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
He said 87 objections were received from private hire employees, but none from hackney drivers.
People in the country should get hackneys or taxis or even better, use a designated driver.
I commented last week on hackneyed phrases in the election campaign. Times, Sunday Times
This along with others is listed under the headword "hackneyed phrases. NPR Topics: News
If only they had used biblical language at least it would have sounded less trite, hackneyed and cliched.
At the same time she is equivocal about the regeneration of parts of Hackney. Times, Sunday Times
His boss can take even a hackneyed phrase and let it dangle suggestively in the air until a dozen meanings reveal themselves.
Gentlemen, conservation is a word that has wide application and meaning, but in the last five years it has become a hackneyed, much-abused term, glibly used by many who hunt and fish, few of whom have any idea what the word means or what it entails. If You're Too Busy To Go FishingYou're Too Busy
The lyrics that all the world loves and repeats, the poetry which is often called hackneyed, is on the whole the best poetry. George Washington
As it is today, this is pure sit-com material and most respectable sit-com writers would shy away from such clichéd and hackneyed situations.
In the evening a Hackney Chaisman drove his horse and chaise into the watering place in Barrack St,
He asserted that a modern artist should be in tune with his times, careful to avoid hackneyed subjects.
Two thirds of the electorate in Hackney did not vote in the council elections this year.
In book 1, The Rest Falls Away, vampires have always lived among them, quietly attacking unsuspecting debutantes and dandified lords as well as hackney drivers and Bond Street milliners. SPOTLIGHT on Colleen Gleason (And Contest too!) « Urban Fantasy Land
This mighty horseman was carried by his steed as lightly as the young springald by his Andalusian hackney. Novels by Eminent Hands
I judged it to be hackneyed although I could see it was incident-rich, with a roll-on narrative that reminded me of the way children play. Critics reveal when they got it wrong
While it might seem this could be just another drippy and hackneyed heart-of-the-West melodrama, this made-for-TV movie is actually quite engaging, mostly because of its wholesome approach.
She didn't go in any hackneyed direction, but actually cohered as a real, powerful individual. Greywalker
The Carriage Office continues to license taxis and hackneys in the city and the Assay Office, which hallmarks genuine silver artifacts, also perpetuates a centuries old tradition.
The script is hackneyed, riddled with stereotypes and offers nothing that hasn't been seen in every single gangster film ever made.
He rode, not a mule, like his companion, but a strong hackney for the road, to save his gallant war-horse, which a squire led behind, fully accoutred for battle, with a chamfron or plaited head-piece upon his head, having a short spike projecting from the front. Ivanhoe
(I’m sorry if that comes across as hackneyed — because what you have recounted is definitely not.) Her Bad Mother’s Home For Misfit Toys | Her Bad Mother
To that end I called a hackney-coach, not greatly caring, I confess it, to be seen in broad daylight in London streets with such an astonishing pair of guys as poor old Ruffiano and his friend. In Direst Peril
When those involved were expelled after a huge public row over all sorts of things to do with how the party in hackney was run (at the time the press described the expellees as the good guys - they weren't) then it became the party they joined (ie the Lib Dems) who took it up. The Law on Postal Votes Must be Rewritten
In lesser hands, this film could've been hackneyed smarm.
The action in the Bond films is tired, the jokes are unfunny and the scripts rarely more than a hackneyed series of conventions and foolish plot twists.
But we have a chronic shortage of secondary school places which means that a huge number of Hackney children are travelling a quarter of the way round London every day.
It sounded kind of hackneyed and derivative to be honest. mangoshakes he's consistently funny. one of the funniest parts from cop trailer. and he didn't have to do something shocking to do it. Seann William Scott to Star In Kevin Smith’s Hit Somebody | /Film
I'd barely sparked up my nicotine fix before Al answered back, bless him, and before I knew it, I had blow-by-blow detailed instructions on how to get to Al and Heather's place in Hackney, with alternative routes for simplicity versus scenery, and even a sneaky wee way of getting me into their flat in their absence. Archive 2010-06-01
And three-quarters of private hire taxis and 55 per cent of hackney cabs stopped for roadside checks were discovered to have faults.
During a three-hour check of 59 Hackney carriages and private hire vehicles they found eight had defective tyres, while one had a faulty exhaust.
Defeated management-employee buy-out bid leader John Hackney considered taking an appeal to the courts.
We've heard Beethoven so many times that there is always a danger of it falling into a hackneyed mode of routine playing.
The plot of the film is just a hackneyed boy-meets-girl scenario.
"I know that refs go out there and try to do their best but if that was his best he should be reffing down at Hackney Marshes."
They had no choice but to resort to amnesia and intermittent power impotency, which is always completely hackneyed and boring. 'Heroes' recap: A walk down memory lane | EW.com
Mr. Harcourt and his outrigger were again skimming on the surface and floating about Rose; Mr. Greydon either had some excuse for calling on Arthur, or called without any excuse at all, except the old hackneyed one of "the fatality," and by his manner to Janet, Blanche was led to the comfortable conviction that, by giving Mr. Greydon this living, she should at once provide her village with an unexceptionable pastor, and pay off some of her debt of gratitude to the Hopkinson family. The Semi-Detached House
It is littered with hackneyed phrases and lazy commonplaces.
Hackney cars in Ireland transported brides to weddings, infants to christenings and mourners to funerals.
Hang!" simultaneously shouted the two hackney-drivers, who seemed as bitter against the disgraced duellist as if he had "bilked" them of a fare. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley
We all want the telecommunications giants to profit, and they intone corporate social responsibility well, but these kinds of dialogue never reach many people on Chicago's Southside or in Tottenham and Hackney. Bernard Rowan: And the Bands Played On
It sounds a bit hackneyed but the best is seeing people grow and do things that are the result of your support or coaching. Times, Sunday Times
However, the story and the manner of its telling are alike hackneyed, dull, and pointless.
That's one of those hackneyed sayings we grow accustomed to from a young age.
1000 Movies in One Year Bama fan and Darrell Hackney groupie attempts the impossible: 1000 movies in one year AL. com's Blog Tide, tide, and mo 'tide by the snazzily named Greg Wingo. EDSBS
As somebody who gets paid to sit in restaurants, I'm well accustomed to deciphering hackneyed old menu descriptions and cheffy verbiage.
While we were deliberating upon what was to be done, a hackney coachman, driving softly along, and perceiving us standing by the kennel, came up close to us, and calling, “A coach, master!” by a dexterous management of the reins made his horses stumble in the wet, and bedaub us all over with mud. The Adventures of Roderick Random
The result of all the investigations of this subject, appears to settle down into the hackneyed truism, that the passive verbs, and the moods and tenses, of some languages, are formed by inflections, or terminations either prefixed or postfixed, and of other languages, by the association of auxiliary verbs, which have not yet been contracted and made to coalesce as _terminations_. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
An increase in hackney carriage numbers can lead to additional pressure on hackney carriage stands.
His choral writing has a traditional yet unhackneyed eloquence that keeps bringing one back to what is being said.
They are not hackneyed imitative replicas of the original versions.
It's a trite and hackneyed old platitude - but sometimes, you do just have to stop and look at what's around you.
They're hackneyed and thus utterly predictable, yet they still manage to be largely unintelligible.
Their generic rock is the backing for observations about gender so hackneyed that the audience would demand a refund if a stand-up comic tried them. Times, Sunday Times
They also provide English with a number of now rather hackneyed phrases like ‘to cry wolf’.
But Mr. Jerningham would have been much more surprised and puzzled if he had waited one minute longer, and seen this Mr. Perkins, who had so gallantly escaladed the hackney-coach, step out of it with the most mortified, miserable, chap-fallen countenance possible. The Bedford-Row Conspiracy
He said this month all 82 hackney carriages had passed their yearly inspection.
Hackney carriage drivers are only allowed to wait for trade in designated ranks but they can be flagged down for journeys.
Hackney Chinese Community Service is a non - profit making charitable organisation.
Then they called a hackney-coach, which conveyed them to an inn, where they were furnished with a chariot and six, in which they set forward for The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
The term "crowd pleaser" is a real backhanded compliment in comedy, being associated with stale, hackneyed, button-pushing routines. This week's new comedy
The term "crowd pleaser" is a real backhanded compliment in comedy, being associated with stale, hackneyed, button-pushing routines. This week's new comedy
After I had written to my aunt and told her of my fortunate meeting with my admired old schoolfellow, and my acceptance of his invitation, we went out in a hackney – chariot, and saw a Panorama and some other sights, and took David Copperfield
As the hackney rolled forth the meaning of Caroline's answer registered in Charlotte's mind.
He makes well directed swipes at the hackneyed emotionalism that has crept into every newspaper, the cult of celebrity and, particularly, the decline of reporting of politics and serious discussion of policy.
The distressing, and to my mind accurate, message that monopolies are putting profit before human and animal health and well being, is potent and distrubing, and would have been much better served without the emotional overkill, the taint of exaggeration; the helping of ham-fisted propaganda. (and okay, enough with the hackneyed food metaphors). Food Inc. and the stench of ham-fisted exaggeration
As I said last weekend, it's easy to become deaf to the sirens in Hackney.
They not only have the law to answer to, but the Hackney Carriage Licensing Authority and the taxi office from which they work.
Open for just over a year it occupies a disused warehouse in one of London's poorest boroughs, Hackney.
Maybe it's time to trot out that hackneyed phrase about ‘the pace of modern life’.
Mr Singleton proposed calling a hackney coach, she consented, and they stopt for it at the church porch. Cecilia
This modern oriel window is part of a renovation to a run-down derelict house in the London Borough of Hackney, and it was designed by Platform 5 Architects. Fake Window – Bright Blind
And, of course, Nevin trots out that hackneyed myth of “the religious right” oppression as if any conservative or religious entity has or could stem the tide of the explosive growth of the porn industry, vile song lyrics, the sexualization of young girls by retailers and advertisers, teen pregnancy and drug use or any of the other rot in our culture. Dinosaur tears « BuzzMachine
Is the site being sold to make money for Hackney council?
Her illustrations are excellent and unhackneyed photographs. The Times Literary Supplement
Meanwhile the transitions and cross cutting formulations are hackneyed, usually singularised by low-angle zooms arranging the actors in Swimsuit Calendar poses.
She reinforces this hackneyed portrait by evoking African tom-toms.
I suggest a Sanctuary drinking game wherein every time Magnus makes a hackneyed historical or literary reference, you take five sips of fine 100 year old brandy from a large snifter. Sanctuary Returns to SyFy for 3rd Season « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
There are some fairly creepy set pieces but nothing really stands out, the acting is average, the plot is hackneyed and derivative, the direction is average. Movie Review – The Unborn
Whiteread cast them from two mortuary slabs which she had bought from a salvage yard in Hackney.
In the hours and days that followed the terrorist attacks on London, the Hyman family clung to that phone call like a lifebuoy, desperately telling themselves the call had come after 9.49am, the moment when 18-year-old Hasib Hussain blew himself up on the upper deck of a number 30 bus to Hackney. 7/7 inquests: Families remember their loved ones
There is a hackneyed witticism about crofts being little pieces of land surrounded by regulations.
Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
My mind numbs in response to the parade of hackneyed phrases ( "And in conclusion, these books are both very similar and very different ...") when suddenly something catches my eye -- a turn of phrase or an extraliterary locution. It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Plagiarism Buster
What then were her feelings when the rider, who dismounted from his little hackney as unpretendingly as did her husband in the twilight court, proved to have my Lord's long beard and narrow face! Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
It rose above the hackneyed, reproduced images of the diaspora. The Crossing-Place
Here I follow Lawrence Lipking's spirited and unhackneyed essay in resisting any clear or settled message.
Perhaps it was no accident that the two events coincided, since the association between oysters and sex has been so hackneyed as to become an embarrassing cliché.
This idea dates back so many thousands of years that it is more at risk of being hackneyed than revolutionary.
The words she attributed to the marine is the tired, hackneyed Republican talking points she kept repeating ad nauseum during her campaign. Think Progress » VIDEO: Schmidt’s Shame
This year's summit has been accompanied by the usual round of hackneyed phrases about the need to end poverty.
The blame, say critics, lies with the hackneyed, highly predictable plots.
He often aphorized, "Frightfully hackneyed to say, The Job An American Novel
Since Monday I have been counting the number of coppers, cop cars, dog handling units, malicious arrests and good-humoured stop-and-searches I've spotted in Hackney.
Hiding behind the hackneyed theme of a ruler being led astray by evil advisers, Becket could have been in no doubt that the scheme had been orchestrated by Henry.
It sounds a bit hackneyed but the best is seeing people grow and do things that are the result of your support or coaching. Times, Sunday Times
It has a certain film music air to it and would make an unhackneyed filler for the next new collection of British orchestral marches.
According to the bishop of London the Anglican rector of South Hackney helped create the shrines, which were visited by the Queen in 1917.
She does this not with hackneyed images of shell-shocked Tommies, but principally through simple visual metaphor.
We are as great friends to horses, hackney – coach and otherwise, as the renowned Mr. Martin, of costermonger notoriety, and yet we never ride. Sketches by Boz
She and her husband bought a house in Victoria Park Road in Hackney to convert into a hostel for twenty girls.
Some people want a discreet vehicle to turn up for them, that's why they don't call a hackney carriage. Private hire taxis to have new signs
Here is music as beautiful, as intensely dramatic, as unhackneyed as the day it was written.
This business being happily transacted, Fathom stept into a hackney-coach, with his baggage, and was followed by a bailiff, who told him, with great composure, that he was again a prisoner, at the suit of Doctor Buffalo, and desired the coachman to reconduct him to the lodging he had so lately discharged. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
I was not content to let him go: But presently we called a hackney-coach, and myself and him, and major Tasker went, and carried that money to Mr. Tryon. State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2)
If only they had used biblical language at least it would have sounded less trite, hackneyed and cliched.
Audiences who had grown tired of hackneyed devices and betting on which token minority would die first had spoken with their wallets.
Ealing social services informed Hackney social workers and the health visitor that the family would be temporarily in the borough.
Hackney services tend to be limited to the Liscard and Birkenhead areas and many outer area ranks, though potentially viable (as evidenced by relatively large nearby private hire bases), remain unserved.
But frankly, Alpiew, I am not willing to walk up that beastly verminous Tottenham Court Road again, so I will treat us to a hackney. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Hackneyed, undisciplined and utterly rubbish, it ended with a shadowy stranger in black springing Myers from prison for no discernible reason.
Still, the rarities, six pieces new to the concerts and an unhackneyed programme make the issue worthwhile. Times, Sunday Times
Cumbria team manager Roger Hackney said he felt the county championship was being downgraded.
After that, we came back to the Barriere de l'Etoile, where she gave me a good 'pourboire' and got into a hackney coach, telling me to take the travelling carriage back to the man who lets such carriages in the Cour des Coches, Faubourg Saint-Honore. The Lesser Bourgeoisie
The nite also reiterated the hackneyed fact that music is not confined to one place.
Private hire cabbies have united with hackney drivers as they prepare for battle over bus lanes.
A Hackney license enables taxi drivers to pick up fares on the street as and when they are flagged down, while private hire drivers rely on bookings.
And for a writer praised for his verbal energy, he's not above succumbing to hackneyed images.
When your miftrefs fends you for a hackney coach in a wet day, come back in the coach to fave your cloaths and the trouble of walking i it is better the bottom of her petticoats (hould be daggled with your dirty flioes, than your livery be fpoil* edj and yourfelf get a cold. The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
The middle section runs about a mile west along the Hackney Road. Times, Sunday Times
It may be hackneyed to point out that people fought and died for the right to vote, but it's true all the same.
It would be hackneyed if I say that death is something very sad and irreclaimable.
He said the only problem taxi drivers had with the proposed new code was the proposal that all taxis, hackneys and limousines be fitted with a front passenger swivel seat to facilitate entry and exit for people with reduced mobility.

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