How To Use Scrooge In A Sentence
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The show lacks the grime and sting of poverty and the emotional heft that might have attended a more sober haunting of Scrooge.
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But the high street clearers are now fighting back against their scrooge image.
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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."
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The house is clearly deserted when the ghost of Marley appears - otherwise Scrooge's first act would be to ring for his servant.
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Or become a Scrooge and bolt the door.
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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.
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Then he opens his robe to reveal to Scrooge two hideous and monstrous children that cling to the ghost's robe.
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Scrooges who detest Christmas are being offered the chance to avoid this year's festive season - by hiding in a subterranean nuclear bunker.
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Or become a Scrooge and bolt the door.
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I tell him he looks like a fabulous Scrooge.
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`Who were those guys who were always robbing Uncle Scrooge 's money bin?
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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Inception was 'incepted' from a Scrooge McDuck Disney Comic Strip
Newlaunches.com
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There is a fine line between taking the stance of Ebenezer Scrooge, skimping on our generosity to friends and relatives, and going absolutely mad with the plastic.
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Unfortunately that document is only available behind a paywall, because the ACM is a pack of scrooge mcducks.
Planet GNOME
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An ill-tempered, compassionless moneygrubber, Scrooge runs roughshod over everyone he encounters.
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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.
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Notorious skinflint Scrooge makes an appearance at the Wyvern Theatre on Friday in a bid to raise thousands of pounds for charity.
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He certainly looked the part in a threadbare dressing gown, mirroring the unredeemed Scrooge's threadbare life.
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Scrooge sits before the fire in his dressing gown and nightcap thinking of the way that the doorknocker changed form.
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The equivalent of a dollar to a dollar-fifty a week in rent was sometimes a fifth of a worker's salary, and when one of these Ebenezer Scrooge slumlords decided to raise the rent, sometimes a large family found itself homeless with nothing but a handbarrow to tote away all its worldly goods.
Portrait of a Killer
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At the ominous word liberality, Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back.
Matthew Yglesias » Revenge of the Public Option
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The show lacks the grime and sting of poverty and the emotional heft that might have attended a more sober haunting of Scrooge.
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Sim did a phenomenal job presenting the heartless, miserly, self - centered Scrooge.
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What a miserable old devil Scrooge was!
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He remembered Scrooge and his journey with the Ghost of Christmas Past in Dickens's _Christmas Carol_.
The Witness
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Ebenezer Scrooge extinguishes the Ghost of Christmas Past with his snuffer and was shot up like a firework.
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I tell him he looks like a fabulous Scrooge.
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The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there.
A Christmas Carol
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Anyway, this is probably Uncle Scrooge's most precious possession, even though it must have nicks, scratches and is probably very worn.
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While you're at it, call me a wombat, a cymbidium, or what Scrooge called Marley: "an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.
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Complaining about this kind of ostentation, and this evidence of conspicuous consumption, of course makes one sound like Scrooge.
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I grant you that his Scrooge in Soulpepper's A Christmas Carol was coming back for the fifth time, but it keeps getting richer and more textured, which is a tribute to his ever-growing artistry.
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Scrooge has been immortalised in the English language as the epitome of miserliness and meanness of spirit.
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I tell him he looks like a fabulous Scrooge.
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No, he takes Scrooge to the market, and shows him the abundance there, especially the fruits sometimes literal of foreign trade: There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence.
A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
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What a bunch of Scrooges.
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The offices are so old-fashioned that one was used as Scrooge's office in a recent film version of A Christmas Carol.
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Are they silently acquiescing to the policies of a government that is as mean as Scrooge?
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But this is not the case with mean old Ebenezer Scrooge, whose first name chimes with "squeezer" as well as with "geezer," whose last name is a combination of "screw" and "gouge," and whose author disapproves mightily of his ways:
Debtor's Prism
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Once he sees the way that his greedy, loveless life will end if he continues in his ways, Scrooge promises to be a more charitable, generous person to prevent such an end.
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Coincidentally, most of the scenes used in Carol's marketing are from this last group, like when Scrooge zooms across England with the Ghost of Christmas Past, rockets into the sky on a giant candle snuffer, or snowboards on an icicle.
Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol (3D) -- Don't Get Scrooged
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If Ebeneezer Scrooge could become open-hearted and generous after spending a lifetime as a curmudgeon and miser, there is hope for Uncle Fred.
Dr. Judith Rich: Making Gratitude the Main Course at Thanksgiving
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Edwards portrays Scrooge with zest and an appropriate balefulness that immediately casts a shadow on the opening scene.
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Scrooge is a hard, cold miser who spends his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone.
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The ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, warns Scrooge of his vainglorious ways.
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The most tight-fisted, scrounging, Scrooge-like people are to be found wherever I go.
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Scrooge awaits the poultry man to give him Cratchit's address.
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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
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The most tight-fisted, scrounging, Scrooge-like people are to be found wherever I go.
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Ruth's great talent and energy really bring the miserly old Ebeneezer Scrooge to life.
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Through these visions, we learn how Scrooge evolved into the black-hearted, unpleasant human being he now is.
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Necro-heckling - while its recent prominence is noteworthy - may be explained away by reference to political bitterness, sanctimonious grandstanding, ill-disguised prejudice or just plain old bah humbug Scroogery.
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Or become a Scrooge and bolt the door.
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Or become a Scrooge and bolt the door.
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Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 2 The First of the Three Spirits | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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The third, and scariest, ghost takes Scrooge to the future.
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Before his Patagonia days traveler extraordinaire Bruce Chatwin studied archeology at the university here, which counts among its rectors the best Scrooge in the movies, hambone extraordinaire Alastair Sim.
Barry Yourgrau: A Remembrance In Edinburgh
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York is bulging at the walls with Scrooges, Grinches, crotchety crosspatches and other assorted bah humbuggers.
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PORTLAND, Maine — A beer distributor says Maine is being a Scrooge by barring it from selling a beer with a label depicting Santa Claus enjoying a pint of brew.
Maine Bans Santa Beer Label
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Grinches, Scrooges and general Christmas haters will crack nasty smiles when they see that movie.
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Goetz's Scrooge is refined and practiced, his voice rumbling through the audience.
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The Spirit of Christmas Past takes Scrooge back to critical moments in his former life.