"Stopgap" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... now I can kick Eliza's shoes sky-high: Nay—I must shuffle them quietly off; and lay The old wife's shoes decently by the hearth, As I found them when I came—a slattern stopgap— Ready for the young wife to step into. They'll fit her, as they never fitted me: For all her youth, they will not gall her heels, Or give her corns: she's the true Cinderella: The clock has struck for her; and the dancing's done; And the Prince ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
... there was another factor that also counted in favour of Lord Hartington. This was the fact that he could not sit in the House of Commons after his father's death, and that, consequently, if he were chosen, he would be more or less of a stopgap. A stopgap is, of course, always popular with the intriguer who knows that he himself has ...
— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed. |
