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"Crimp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thinks you're just a plug business man, he gets to shooting off his mouth about economics or literature or foreign trade conditions, and you just ease in something like, 'When I was in college—course I got my B.A. in sociology and all that junk—' Oh, it puts an awful crimp in their style! But there wouldn't be any class to saying 'I got the degree of Stamp-licker from the Bezuzus Mail-order University!' You see—My dad was a pretty good old coot, but he never had much style ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... parted with your defenses and left yourself exposed to mischance. The legend was that in those upper reaches you might be divine; but you were much likelier to be ridiculous. Your public wanted just about eighty degrees; if you gave it more it blew its nose and put a crimp in you. In the morning, especially, it seemed to her very probable that whatever struggled above the good average was not quite sound. Certainly very little of that superfluous ardor, which cost so dear, ever got across the footlights. These misgivings ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... I put a crimp in him," giggled Mr. Burns. "I gave him a chance to show those talents he recommends ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... nosed out something they want to put through. The fools! And after last night nearly havin' finished everything! I told 'em—you heard me—that everybody's to keep under cover now. But they think they've got a soft thing, and they say they're goin' to it. I've got to put a crimp in it, and you've got to help ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard |
Words linked to "Crimp" : turn up, kiss curl, kidnaper, angular shape, ruck, plication, wave, kidnapper, spit curl, twirl, curl, pin curl, kink, flute, plait, lock, abductor, angularity, twist, ringlet, whorl, crimper, fold up, pleat, pucker, snatcher |
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