How To Use scrooge In A Sentence
- Allthough it could be just prudent housekeeping ahead of the expected cuts and the hootsmon is spinning it as a "rammy with westminster" article, we all know Westminster are going to be scrooge and cant afford it after Browns disaster. The SNP Myth of the £500m cut and related matters
- The complaint is that Calvin's God is a salvation Scrooge, reluctantly doling out redemption to an elect few rather than lavishing his grace on all of humanity.
- But the high street clearers are now fighting back against their scrooge image.
- Most of the sources I've looked at restrict the term to use of a name as a generic, eg. calling someone a "Romeo" or a "Scrooge," though I have dim recollections of seeing in print "antonomasia" being used to describe the use of "coke" as "soft drink" or "levis" as "denim pants."
- The house is clearly deserted when the ghost of Marley appears - otherwise Scrooge's first act would be to ring for his servant.
- Or become a Scrooge and bolt the door. Times, Sunday Times
- He comes to the counting house to wish Scrooge a merry Christmas and invite his uncle to dine with himself and his wife on Christmas Day.
- Then he opens his robe to reveal to Scrooge two hideous and monstrous children that cling to the ghost's robe.
- Scrooges who detest Christmas are being offered the chance to avoid this year's festive season - by hiding in a subterranean nuclear bunker.
- Or become a Scrooge and bolt the door. Times, Sunday Times
