basil fawlty
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Armond is the Basil Fawlty of the 21st Century! Starts like this and ends like this:"
- "Steve Bloom, of Bloomindales book shop, was dubbed the “Basil Fawlty of books” after visitors made more than 20 complaints about his behaviour to the local parish council."
- ""There is nothing anti-European about believing that we should decide our taxes here in the House of Commons. The truth is that the right hon. Gentleman now has to ask the Germans to use a different word. He has become the Basil Fawlty of Europe. Every time he meets a German, he goes around saying 'Don't mention tax harmonisation'.""
- "The following morning, I rise slightly bleary-eyed, having perhaps enjoyed a few too many wines by the glass the night before. I drive back towards Martinborough and discover the Basil Fawlty of the New Zealand wine world. Tim Coney and his wife Margaret decided to leave the big smoke of Wellington and take to the hills of Martinborough and plant a vineyard in their fifties."
- "By the time I left my first teaching post, I was known as the Basil Fawlty of my school, the man with the manic energy, with two briefcases and three distinct job titles. Looking back, those recurrent stomach pains at twenty-five were probably an ulcer."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Basil Fawlty's (plural)