He was like the rest of us riff-raff, middle class kids from unglamorous hard working families who believed in the future.

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The new tax may send a definite message to wealthy citizens to redistribute their wealth to the rest of the Russian riff-raff.

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Mr Evans blames the city's strict regulation of street concerts which cynics say serves more to protect club owners from competition than to keep the riff-raff away.

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It's all the riff-raff that's being allowed in, like Ceres.

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They say the protesters were "riff-raff".

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What seemed to matter was the claim that Mr Osborne didn't - or his aides didn't - seem to think he should have to suffer the indignity of sitting with the riff raff in standard class.

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The self-described clairvoyant and wonder woman says the fee's sole purpose is to "sort out the riff raff" ladies who aren't serious about finding a partner.

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