tin-opener

And a good tin-opener, the ones you find abroad are usually junk.

packing nathreee 2010

I could tell one of them felt sorry for me - I had no clothes, was living on doughnuts from the doughnut place next door, I managed to find a tin-opener and lived on beans for a week.

A new north-south service 2008

(No word on whether he remembered to pack a tin-opener for the pineapple slices.)

Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006

Watching Jade have an argument with Ken Russell on Sunday was like watching a monkey try and work a tin-opener.

Big Brother Betting Odds: Mario Out Tonight, Please 2007

I made haste to shut the secret door and went to wrestle with the tin-opener, and had the coffee finished by the time Flo came in, yawning and tousled and looking far more beautiful with her skin pink from sleep than she did with rouge and paint and immaculate hair.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

I made haste to shut the secret door and went to wrestle with the tin-opener, and had the coffee finished by the time Flo came in, yawning and tousled and looking far more beautiful with her skin pink from sleep than she did with rouge and paint and immaculate hair.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Jennifer looked alert, like a cat hearing the tin-opener at the opposite end of the house.

Conferences are Murder McDermid, Val 1999

I took the tins out from their hiding place and pulled the tin-opener out of my pocket.

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

I pocketed it, a saucer, a tin of peas and one of potted meat, a heel of bread, and the tin-opener, and hid them in the clearing, and then went back to the campfire.

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

He went off, clutching the tin-opener and the cheese, and I went back over to the edge of the clearing.

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997