But ask Moyes what omens mean to him and you would probably get short shrift.
And Israel's surrogate South Lebanese Army might get short shrift if it were abandoned.
Their schools focus on religious learning: even basic subjects such as maths and English get short shrift.
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Any corporate borrower that tried to treat one of its existing bondholders more generously than others would get short shrift.
But any banker proposing one is likely to get short shrift from today's bosses, ever mindful of their suddenly suspicious board members.
Thus, when donor funds are flowing, the citizen-taxpayers often get short shrift.
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Campaign-finance reform, the issue that John McCain and Mr Bradley bravely raised, will get short shrift from two big beneficiaries of money politics.
When considering the great technology advances of the past few decades, GPS tends to get short shrift compared to such culture-rocking innovations as the internet and cellular networks.
After all, shoplifters would get short shrift for arguing that they really like bananas and paid for some last week, so ought therefore to be allowed to help themselves today.
For young women, the drop is less drastic, but no less insulting, down 7.6% to 18.80, meaning that even in a cohort that makes a pittance, the ladies still get short shrift.
He may get short shrift: Mr Chertoff said recently that more than a dozen suspected terrorists had been apprehended trying to cross the northern border and that he worried more about Canada than Mexico.
She's also something of a fibre fanatic - try telling her that satellite or 4G or any number of other technologies might be a more economic way of filling in the gaps in broadband coverage, and you'll get short shrift.
Atlantic Southeast, which was sold to Skywest Airlines by Delta in 2005 but continues as Delta's connector partner, tends to get short shrift during weather delays by an Air Traffic Control system that would always rather delay flights with relatively fewer people on them.
Two papers featured in the current issue of the prestigious American Journal of Epidemiology provide useful examples of how, simply because a study has been carried out, its findings can get held up as if they were meaningful, and the many considerations that should make us skeptical get short shrift.
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Native Americans get shockingly short shrift when she brags that in the winning of the west one out of every five soldiers was black.
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