How To Use Top-hole In A Sentence
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When he made that announcement, the prime minister presumably did not mean that the official would continue to do his first-class job until Wednesday evening, whereupon he would draft a truly top-hole letter of resignation.
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Aye, she's always had the priceless gift of pleasing, has Elspeth, and making people laugh - for she's a damned funny woman when she wants to be, a top-hole mimic, and all the more engaging because she plainly hasn't got two brains to rub together.
Watershed
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Every second word of his babble was "magnifique!" or "superbe!" or "merveilleux!" and once even "top-hole, I declare!", and I couldn't deny that it was.
Watershed
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OK, so Gordon is a bit of a duffer behind the podium, but I was shocked at how badly Osborne delivered his speech and did anyone buy that semi-official back-stage footage of Dave telling George what a top-hole performance he'd given - they take us for fools.
David Cameron vs. the Treasury
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`My relations with the police have always been top-hole.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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Warren promised to be there, assuring them that everything would go swimmingly and end up top-hole and ticketyboo.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Up there, on the top floor, was not only as dangerous a man as I'd ever met, but a top-hole shikari, a night-bird, a trained and skilful hunter who could catch the sound of grass growing.
Watershed
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Up there, on the top floor, was not only as dangerous a man as I'd ever met, but a top-hole shikari, a night-bird, a trained and skilful hunter who could catch the sound of grass growing.
Watershed
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I-- I wasn't feeling top-hole," he murmured lamely, wondering why girls always wanted to go back and stir up dogs that had gone comfortably to sleep.
The Fortieth Door
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Now we will go and recover the flies off the hatches; and you will agree that there is more cunning, more science, and therefore more pleasant excitement, in 'foxing' a great fish out of a stop-hole, than in whipping far and wide over an open stream, where a half-pounder is a wonder and a triumph.
Prose Idylls, New and Old
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Absolutely top-hole, I am sure, my dear; but supposing you let me know what it's all about?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919