Citations:tinfoily

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English citations of tinfoily

Adjective: "resembling or characteristic of tinfoil"

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  • 1970, Michael J. Arlen, Exiles, page 118:
    It sounds good in stories but it was nerve-racking in life. One had those rubber things then, awful things in trim little tinfoily packages.
  • 2000, Vitaly Komar, When Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand, page 47:
    “Or, like, a few summers ago I was in Berlin when Christo wrapped the Reichstag with that tinfoily stuff. It was a real scene, man. People hanging out on the lawn with guitars talking about the future of Germany and how it’s the first time it’s been reunited since Hitler and shit. Who are you guys anyway? Did I see you on MTV?”
  • 2006, Michael Chorost, Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World, page 54:
    It tinkles. As it skitters along the ground, it makes a tinny, tinfoily little noise as its edges scrape along the concrete.
  • 2011, Molly Hopkins, It Happened in Paris, page 379:
    The walls were festooned with silver and white tinfoily stuff, and on every table stood a tall slim vase, spilling over with sprayed silver flowers.
  • 2015, Jessica Clare, Jen Frederick, Last Hope, page 138:
    “There’s a tinfoily blanket thing, a prescription bottle full of something. Pain pills?”

Adjective: "(informal, derogatory) prone to paranoia or conspiracy theories"

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  • 2019, Clive Thompson, quoting Blake Ross, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, page 75:
    By the time you land an engineering gig at Apple, you are a twitchy, tinfoily mess.