skelf

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skelf

(skɛlf)
n
1. a splinter of wood, esp when embedded accidentally in the skin
2. a thin or diminutive person
[from Scottish; see shelf]
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They throw out Alastair Campbell for having the cheek to vote for the Lib Dems instead of asking him for advice on how to get the skelfs out of their collective backsides on Brexit.
But you can only take so many skelfs in your backside before you start jumping up and down in anger.
Now, following 24 months of picking skelfs out of his backside after spending most of that time on the Ibrox bench and losing his Scotland place, he's headed south this week to join Cardiff City.
Keir Milliken had fired Bot ahead but McGregor shook off the skelfs from the bench to drill home the leveller.
RUBY WALSH most certainly had skelfs in his nether regions when quizzed about wondermare Annie Power's likely Festival target.
Certainly not McCoist - he still has the bench skelfs to prove it.
I'm not saying we should all be skelfs but there's a happy medium, surely around, say, size 14?
Is Johansen going to get skelfs on his backside from sitting on the bench too?" Pat Thompson, Parkhead, said: "Surely some day this week will be D-Day for Samaras because this is turning into a saga now.
If all he has to show for his season is a CIS Cup run and a collection of skelfs? Show us you love football more than money.
KRIS BOYD will be picking skelfs out of his backside in a dugout in Derby tonight as Middlesbrough try to rise from 17th in the second tier of English football.
Point being I always said he had the talent -too much talent to be sitting picking skelfs out of his bum.
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