by choice
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Mr Trump has "just picked a vice-president who’s had some pretty choice language about him in the past", Mr Lammy said.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024
For fun: The New York Times has some pretty choice egg on its face.
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2016
You always did have a pretty choice, Mary!
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
“Poor old uncle! he will break his heart about leaving his books; pretty choice, too, some of them.”
From Blind Policy by Fenn, George Manville
His sister told me she happened to see, the first time, what a pretty choice he made o' useful things that a woman would feel lost without.
From The Country of the Pointed Firs by Jewett, Sarah Orne
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