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• Nigger in the woodpile — A parody, titled The Nigger in the Woodpile , of Republican efforts to play down the antislavery plank in their 1860 platform. A nigger in the woodpile (or fence) is an English figure of speech formerly commonly used in the United States and… …   Wikipedia

• nigger in the woodpile — {n. phr.}, {slang} Something unexpected that changes a situation; a hidden factor or trick. Racist and offensive, but commonly used in the past. * /I knew there had to be a nigger in the woodpile, because the man was being much too generous./ *… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• nigger in the woodpile — {n. phr.}, {slang} Something unexpected that changes a situation; a hidden factor or trick. Racist and offensive, but commonly used in the past. * /I knew there had to be a nigger in the woodpile, because the man was being much too generous./ *… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• nigger\ in\ the\ woodpile — n. phr. slang Something unexpected that changes a situation; a hidden factor or trick. Racist and offensive, but commonly used in the past. I knew there had to be a nigger in the woodpile, because the man was being much too generous. When the… …   Словарь американских идиом

• nigger — (n.) 1786, earlier neger (1568, Scottish and northern England dialect), from Fr. nègre, from Sp. negro (see NEGRO (Cf. Negro)). From the earliest usage it was the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites… …   Etymology dictionary

• Nigger — This article is about the pejorative use of the word. For nigga as a colloquial reference, see Nigga. For other uses, see Nigger (disambiguation). Not to be confused with niggardly …   Wikipedia

• Torquay Hotel Co. Ltd. v. Cousins — [1969] 2 Ch. 106, [1969] 2 WLR 289 is a British labour law case concerning the liability of a union when its members take industrial action. In it Lord Denning MR invented a new economic tort for interference with a contract. This was not there… …   Wikipedia

• Pat Bottrill — Patricia Pat Bottrill, MBE, FRCN is a UK nurse and was awarded fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2004 for her outstanding contribution to the establishment and development of endoscopy and gastroenterology nursing in the UK and… …   Wikipedia