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at the coalface
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at the coalface  (British & Australian)
someone who is at the coalface is doing the work involved in a job, not talking about it, planning it, or controlling it You sit in your office looking at consultants' reports, but it's the men and women at the coalface who really understand the business.


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Hand has worked at the coalface for the past 11 years in terms of dealing with moves by Irish schoolboys to clubs in the UK, and last night warmly welcomed the introduction of regulations for scouts and trials.
HAND SLAMS ROGUE SCOUTS; FAI NEWS NEW RULES FOR SCHOOLBOY TRIALS by The Mirror (London, England)
Warning his men not to underestimate their coalface challengers, Vickers picked out hooker Aleki Lutui as the ball-carrying dangerman up front.
Vickers wary of wounded; Warriors dangerous despite injuries, warns ... by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Byline: Baren Coughlenstall The wheels of the bus go round and round, from Anfield to the coalface my head spins whirling with ideas, The horn of the bus goes beep, beep, beep liver birds twitter and the Bubbles glitter The inescapable noise of life The wipers of the bus go swish, swish, swish rain abound, Mersey sound, hope in dreariness my ambitions are lateral in a linear life The people of the bus go chatter, chatter, chatter are they talking to me Queen or about me?
THE WHEELS OF THE BUS; Your Poem by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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