His store is big in Beijing, tiddly elsewhere but still ambitious.

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Those numbers look tiddly beside the public-sector pension deficits.

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At literary parties, tiddly in a trice, she could be the life and soul, mistaking the queen for Vera Lynn loudly and to her face, or inviting men to join her under the piano.

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But man, back then I was convinced I was the only kid who was screwed up enough to be drawing pictures and playing Tiddly Winks with a nimrod who had elbow patches on his corduroy sport coat.

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