Meaning of school-dinner lady | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of school dinner lady.

alt-of, alternative

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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