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The Mail, with its suburban, curtain-twitching prurience, is in some respects worse than Murdoch's tabloids, which are at least fairly honest about their mission to titillate.
We shouldn't rejoice in the death of the News of the World | Peter Wilby 2011
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In any event, this, surely, is curtain-twitching in cyberspace.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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In any event, this, surely, is curtain-twitching in cyberspace.
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She is actually, like all small- and big-c conservatives, on the side of the curtain-twitching classes.
Cruising on Punternet Alix Mortimer 2009
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The ASBO system has turned much of Britain into a curtain-twitching, neighbor-watching, noise-policing gang of spies.
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She is actually, like all small- and big-c conservatives, on the side of the curtain-twitching classes.
Cruising on Punternet Alix Mortimer 2009
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I'm not sure under what part of the curriculum this clumsy, collective exercise in net curtain-twitching nosiness fell - 'personal and social development' perhaps, that briefly fashionable catch-all term which even turned up in Inspector Morse as shorthand for "young people stuff".
Archive 2005-12-01 Alistair Myles 2005
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I was reading, she was curtain-twitching only I'd pulled the curtains out of her way, but the principle is the same.
One, two, three, oops-a-daisy... ailbhe 2005
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There was a good deal of curtain-twitching as they got into the Rolls, but Claribel wasn't disturbed by that.
The Course Of True Love Neels, Betty 1993
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She knew how to make a pot boil, but she had a conventional mind and a curtain-twitching sensibility.
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