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You was clean as an apple, then -- and easier to pick -- now you're just a common bar-fly, the same as us.
The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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Good modding also gives quieter people a say, and sorts out the well-grounded from the ranty (ie those who want to change the world for the better v those who merely want to posture or vent in bar-fly ways).
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Good modding also gives quieter people a say, and sorts out the well-grounded from the ranty (ie those who want to change the world for the better v those who merely want to posture or vent in bar-fly ways).
The Guardian World News Natalie Hanman 2010
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Basically we get Dreijer's in her face paint with other shadowy bodies amid blue shadows and a fringed, bar-fly lampshade that occasionally offers a warmer orange feel to the otherwise cold surrounds.
Stereogum 2009
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In hindsight being a bar-fly ceased to be much fun after about 25, and I wish I had moved onto other things sooner
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In hindsight being a bar-fly ceased to be much fun after about 25, and I wish I had moved onto other things sooner
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Though the attraction of booze is primary, Jack’s banal and clichéd bar-fly conversation with Lloyd is mostly about women.
2009 August 2009
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"Commission on External Relations" a former school-master is taken, an inept clubbist, bar-fly and the pillar of the billiard-room, scarcely able to read the documents brought to him to sign in the café where he passes his days. [
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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