Citations:bay window
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English citations of bay window
Noun: "(figuratively) a protruding belly"[edit]
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- 1982 — Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending, McClelland & Stewart (2004), →ISBN, page 126:
- Bert came hustling up, bumping his way through the kids with his bay window.
- 1991 — Brit Hume, "The Grounding of Air Sununu", The American Spectator, September 1991:
- John Sununu, with his large family and small means, might be the least comfortable member of the Bush team, but with his bay window and know-it-all manner, he fits the mold of a fat cat.
- 2007 — Gene Lovell, A Raid on the Southland, iUniverse (2007), →ISBN, page 43:
- Carl Phipps: A fat forty-five with wife to match. How in the world do they have intercourse? With his bay window, they must lie end to end.
- 2011 — Cole Alpaugh, The Bear in a Muddy Tutu, Camel Press (2011), →ISBN, page 6:
- No, a true Successfat celebrates his corpulence, patting his or her bay window without chagrin.