You wowsers from Oxford and Cambridge want your blinkers taken off.
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They don't need wowsers telling them that you can or can't gamble.
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The nation is again being told off for its profligacy, economic wowsers merrily predicting a scuttling.
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The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant guidelines for bias-free writing is a product of pointy-headed wowsers.
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The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant guidelines for bias-free writing is a product of pointy-headed wowsers.
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I reckon the sly-groggers should join forces with the wowsers to burn down all the pubs.
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We are told that only wowsers and those professing zero-tolerance would question harm minimisation as a policy.
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Of course there are always the wowsers who resent the sight of anyone enjoying themselves, and would like to stop it.
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His latest collection, Wowsers, is a tour-de-force of erudite allusion, equally at ease with traditional forms and free verse.
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I was writing a book called Wowsers, and when I gave the news to Phil his eyes lit up with considerable interest.
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Our group of friends who are mainly Scousers and our adopted wannabe Scouse friends we refer to as Wowsers will spend the day together.
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It is pretty easy to make fun of such blatant wowsers, but the fact is that the events of April 18-19, 1775, are somewhat complicated.
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Now I have often enough had a meal and a glass of wine or two with Bob and his beautiful wife Helena, and know they are no wowsers.
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A family of wowsers, the McWowses, oppose jazz dancing but are converted to its joys. Several dances are featured, including 'the Walking Waltz', 'the Jazz', 'the Tickle-Toe' and the 'Whirly Whirly'. These were performed by the leads.
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Haire told 'Paddy' O'Connor that he had decided to leave his money to the University of Sydney for the study of sex "to annoy the wowsers".Haire's comment to his friend was quoted by R F Foster in WB Yeats: A life. II: The Arch-poet 1915–1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2003, p 497, fn 4. Haire's papers are held at the University of Sydney Library.
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Pubs were seen as a nexus for all kinds of immoral activity, including illegal "SP betting", and the Temperance movement lobbied long and hard to have public houses tightly regulated and their opening hours severely restricted. In this area, the "wowsers" (as they were dubbed) were very successful but these high moral concerns backfired, at least in terms of liquor licensing, and the new laws led to the evolution of what was a new phenomenon in Australian 20th century pub culture.
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He published a quartet of books on Australian character: Wowsers (1968), Knockers (1972), Sports (1973) and Ratbags (1979) and many works of history on popular subjects ranging from wine to sport to retailing, and including an unfashionably critical study of the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, Saint Ned (1980). His pioneering works of Australian sports history included The Paddock That Grew (1962) on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which has now seen several editions and updates. He also wrote an autobiography, No Brains at All (1990). Other publications included The Melbourne I Remember (2004) and Moonee Ponds to Broadway (2006), a study of his friend and fellow Melburnian, the satirist Barry Humphries.
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Chalopin, who at the time owned the DIC Audiovisuel studio, helped develop the format and concept for the rest of the episodes together with Bruno Bianchi, who designed the main characters and served as supervising director. Part of the project's existence was to recoup costs incurred by DiC and TMS Entertainment when a planned collaboration, a spin-off of Lupin the Third called Lupin VIII, was cancelled due to financial disputes with the estate of Arsène Lupin creator Maurice Leblanc. According to the DVD bonus film "Wowsers", a retrospective featurette with co-creators Andy Heyward and Mike Maliani on the four-disc DVD set Inspector Gadget: The Original Series, Gadget went through approximately 350 sketches before reaching his final design. Gadget's design also included a mustache in the pilot before it was dropped for the rest of the series, due to DiC being sued by MGM.
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