coconut shy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Her greatest material treasure was an egregiously shiny bit of tin she’d won at a fairground coconut shy; this fact can’t be denied.”
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2016
“Too far south,” Spence said, before I could ask whether we might encounter members of the Spence clan manning the bumper cars or the coconut shy.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2015
It also offers a rebuke to the transfer window coconut shy in England in which vast sums are thrown at a depressing array of mediocrities in a desperate attempt to secure Premier League survival.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2013
But Dhoni must have thought he was impersonating a coconut shy, because of the wayward throwing.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011
Brazil had absolutely battered Argentina, hitting the woodwork three times and mistaking the Argentina keeper Sergio Goycochea for a coconut shy, and Maradona had been at best peripheral.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2010
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