Meaning of school-dinner lady | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of school dinner lady.

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Examples

“KNOWSLEY’S school-dinner ladies are to hold⟳ a one-day token strike⟳, on Friday, as part of a dispute over cuts in their working hours.”

“WILTSHIRE County Council was today accused of hoodwinking workers in the school-dinner ladies’ redundancy row.”

“The school-dinner ladies of Britain do not make⟳ for militant Socialists.”

“Four school-dinner ladies sacked by labour-controlled Walsall council for refusing to join⟳ a trade⟳ union under a closed-shop agreement will not be reinstated although an industrial tribunal in Birmingham ruled they were unfairly dismissed and should be reinstated.”

“NINE school-dinner ladies sacked by Somerset county council will ask⟳ an industrial tribunal in Bristol next week to rule⟳ that they were unfairly dismissed.”

“The Tory city council is going beyond all boundaries of civilised behaviour by sacking school-dinner ladies and re-employing them only on dictated terms.”

“How would our school-dinner lady react⟳ to being branded dinners?”

“RULINGS of unfair dismissal won by 18 school-dinner ladies who refused to take⟳ a pay⟳ cut⟳ were upheld by the Court of Appeal today.”

“So come⟳ on all you lighthouse keepers, school-dinner ladies and lion tamers, send⟳ for your applications forms from: Busman’s Holiday, Granada Television, Manchester M60 9EA.”

“Her own⟳ home is on a modern private estate on the edge of Birmingham, where she reckons most of the wives work⟳ as school-dinner ladies nearby or, like⟳ herself, as cleaners.”

“Gasfitters, accountants, Burton shop⟳ staff, Wimpy crews and West End⟳ school-dinner ladies will all be red-nosing like⟳ mad.”

“THE CLOTHES SHOW⟳. Including make-up advice from Barbara Daly for a group of Yorkshire school-dinner ladies.”

“The action is set⟳ in a high-rise flat in the theatre’s own⟳ borough of Newham, the home of Mary Atkins, a school-dinner lady, and her husband George, a hospital plumber, devoted Kinnockite and pillar of the local Labour Party.”

“A hotel in Scarborough it had been; three days of lust with a divorced school-dinner lady. School-dinner ladies hadn’t been like⟳ that in Rebus’s day … or maybe he just hadn’t been paying attention.”

“THIRTY school-dinner ladies in Blyth have⟳ been presented with certificates after completing a four-week food hygiene course organised by Northumberland County Council’s catering arm, Northumberland Contracting.”

“School-dinner lady Ann Harvey of Swadlincote, Derby, Olive Barton of Dronfield, Sheffield, and Phylis Carey of Shannon, Co. Clare, Eire, all win⟳ £333.33 for winning lines.”

“Frances Barber, 36, was born in Wolverhampton the daughter of a bookmaker and a school-dinner lady.”

“Nora Jacques, who used to dole out a steady diet of meat, veg and mash, meets modern-day school-dinner lady Diane Smith”

“School-dinner ladies lose⟳ right-to-pension test⟳ case […] In a test⟳ case brought by 11 Lancashire school-dinner ladies, Mr Justice Robert Walker held that Lancashire County Council did not breach European law in failing to ensure that their right to belong⟳ to an occupational pension scheme carried over into their new employment with BET⟳ Catering Services.”

“Game show⟳ in which young contestants get⟳ revenge on adults of their choice — including a school-dinner lady and an ice-skating coach.”

“Her late mother, a school-dinner lady, was a fervent Anglican who regularly cleaned the church.”

“After a brief, unhappy marriage, Jean [Barker] brought up her twin boys alone, cleaning, working as a school-dinner lady, and at a social security office.”

“Yes, there’s an element of curiosity but, at the risk⟳ of sounding like⟳ the school-dinner lady who insisted you finish⟳ your sprouts, it is hard to justify⟳ limiting yourself to a small group of animals — and then only to certain prime cuts — when there is so much hunger in the world.”

“The son of a Scottish able seaman and a school-dinner lady, he [Andy Gilchrist] was born in Portsmouth.”

“Her first married home, when she was a school-dinner lady, had been in a terrace that had been demolished to make⟳ way for the Amersham.”

“Meanwhile, Alison the stroppy school-dinner lady has difficulty controlling her daughter, and thinks drugs might help⟳ calm down her kid — Doc Martin has other ideas (unsurprisingly).”

“As he tucks in to his early-morning muffin, the aforementioned Walters is given to fulminating about some school-dinner lady, who used to ladle grey, lumpy mashed potato on to his tray.”

“English cabbage or carrots tended to be boiled to the point⟳ of indigestibility, and once the school-dinner ladies got their hands on vegetables, they really did have⟳ all flavour and most of the colour surgically removed.”

“I asked some of the school-dinner ladies about feminism.”

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