tomato can

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tomato can

An exceptionally poor boxer, one who is often paired with a much better boxer so as to improve the latter's statistics and win percentages. The up-and-coming star boxer suffered a huge upset last night at the hands of a tomato can who everyone expected to lose.

See also: can, tomato

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Beside him, an unrolled bundle showed itself as consisting of a ragged overcoat and containing an empty and smoke-blackened tomato can, an empty and battered condensed milk can, some dog-meat partly wrapped in brown paper and evidently begged from some butcher-shop, a carrot that had been run over in the street by a wagon-wheel, three greenish- cankered and decayed potatoes, and a sugar-bun with a mouthful bitten from it and rescued from the gutter, as was made patent by the gutter-filth that still encrusted it.

Picking up the tomato can, he arose, went down the short path to the river, and returned with the can filled with not-nice river water.

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boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage,

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The oddball cast of Stephens's fellow patients is brilliantly re-created, and his use of the tomato can metaphor to describe his own situation is both stunning and heartbreaking.

Green Dreams: Essays Under the Influence of Irish

I was bleeding where tomato cans were stored in the restaurant.

LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID TO ELENI; QC shows pizza murder accused body pic

Everyone knows that Joe Calzaghe only fights the freshest tomato cans available and has actively avoided me throughout the years.

Boxing: SYD INSULTS MAGEE

At Lia Rumma, Haim Steinbach, in his first show in Naples in nine years, installed tomato cans, bingo baskets, and a pack of Neapolitan cards - three fetishized objects of popular Neapolitan culture - on metal shelves, as well as four wall-mounted rectangular pieces of furniture, each equipped with a drawer for hiding spotless handkerchiefs and coins.

Amalfi toast

It's easy to get a guy to 25-0 record by putting him in against tomato cans, but the problem is he doesn't learn anything.

OUTBACK & BEYOND; BOXING CONLAN'S DATE DOWN UNDER Arum: Five million Americans are going to be watching Mick.. that's an ideal platform for a rising star

IF betting is anything to go by, cruiserweights Nathan Cleverly (1-100) and Tony Bellew (1-16) will stand opposite two tomato cans at Liverpool's Echo Arena tonight.

BOX CLEVER AS ODDS A BRIT TOO BIG; RESULT!

THE AMERICANS have a great description for no-hope boxers who are fodder for those on the up - tomato cans.