toyshop

"As it is a very lucrative game, we should expect bad behavior; disloyalty; rampant individual greed; irrational behavior (kids in toyshop style); back-stabbing; bum-fucking, and similar ungentlemanly activities."

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

I can already see myself heading downtown to find a toyshop with a small-scale reproduction of Mr Ford's famous car.

FEAR OF LANDING Eamon Somers 2011

These early products were unpopular with everybody from toyshop owners "the same old stuff with a licence on it" to consumers' associations, who called it "ludicrous" that the toys were almost twice as expensive in the UK as they were in the US.

Harry Potter and the A-Z of magic 2011

At the start, Nice describes Wilson's baby as a "post-punk Bauhaus, Manchester crucible, dialectical toyshop" (whatever that is), though there is much more fun in his frequent collisions with clay-footed musicians: "Crispy Ambulance was the worst band name on the label, until he signed Thick Pigeon."

Document and Eyewitness by Neil Taylor and Shadowplayers by James Nice 2010

He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for each of them he caused a box of bricks to be made by an out-of-work carpenter, not the insufficient supply of the toyshop, you understand, but a really adequate quantity of bricks made out of oak and shaped and smoothed, bricks about five inches by two and a half by one, and half-bricks and quarter-bricks to correspond.

Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Sport is the toyshop; Bourgeois proffers no hint of a welcome.

June 2008 2008

He was a prosperous west of England builder; including my father he had three nephews, and for each of them he caused a box of bricks to be made by an out-of-work carpenter, not the insufficient supply of the toyshop, you understand, but a really adequate quantity of bricks made out of oak and shaped and smoothed, bricks about five inches by two and a half by one, and half-bricks and quarter-bricks to correspond.

H G Wells, The New Machiavelli (1911) Adam Roberts 2010

There he discovers a wonky world, with a dachshund and donkey who both talk, and an old puppet-maker in a magical toyshop where nothing is quite what it seems.

Boyne free: an author runs away from history ... and the Twilight zone Michelle Pauli 2010

I thought, cheesingly punning on that old Beach Boys tune and the name of heretofore unknown-to-me adult toyshop I found while Googling The Beach Boys.

Sharon Glassman: Why Can't Women Sleep? Part III: Non-Pharma Sleep Tips 2009

There, behind the backcloth painted with the night sky of Elsinore, we found half a dozen people standing, frozen, in grotesque postures, their arms raised above their heads, like marionettes hanging in a toyshop window.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009