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  • Still, the SNP are understandably cock-a-hoop and, again unsurprisingly, SNP bloggers are urging the party on to 2010 and their plans for an independence referendum. The View from the North
  • No wonder the players were all cock-a-hoop in the dressing room after the game.
  • Plenty of Tories are, it seems, cock-a-hoop about the news, still to be confirmed, that General Sir Richard Dannatt is to be elevated to the House of Lords where he will become a Tory defence adviser and, perhaps, a minister in the next Conservative government. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
  • So Yorks cock-a-hoop again, Durham are 176 for eight. County cricket - live!
  • We're just cock-a-hoop here and Birmingham reaped the dividends on Wednesday, which didn't surprise me.
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  • I think there has been a real improvement in then quality of teaching over the last ten years and we are cock-a-hoop.
  • He himself is cock-a-hoop, as you can imagine.
  • Jack's cock-a-hoop to be abroad again, though.
  • After the game he said the players ‘were cock-a-hoop but soon brought back down to earth again by what's going to happen’.
  • Naturally the tech giant is cock-a-hoop at the prediction.
  • When England, cock-a-hoop after their success in the 2005 Ashes, went to Australia for the rematch and were ritually humiliated to the tune of a whitewash, the response of the England and Wales Cricket Board was to commission the Schofield Report, the essence of which recommended root-and-branch restructuring of the way England approached touring, preparation, selection, fitness, the lot. India's board counts the cost of complacency as status dwindles | Mike Selvey
  • The European Union would normally have been cock-a-hoop about the arrival of Estonia as the 17th member of the euro yesterday. Estonia gets cool welcome from a eurozone in crisis
  • Organisers of the celebrations are cock-a-hoop at news that the guitarist will open an architecture festival in the city next month.
  • Graeme was cock-a-hoop when Hibs won the championship.
  • The company is cock-a-hoop at its performance, especially in light of the difficult trading conditions.
  • Students were cock-a-hoop as they collected their results allowing them to go on to study for A-levels or take their first steps into employment.
  • The software giant is cock-a-hoop with the decision of the PC assemblers to pre-install their operating system.
  • I'm cock-a-hoop because it basically means the Premiership teams have embarrassed themselves and that can only be a good thing.
  • The PGA is cock-a-hoop about the breadth and depth of the talent pile at 23 years and below at a time when Europeans occupy the top four places in the world rankings. Smiling Rory McIlroy leads golf's charge of the young brigade | Paul Hayward
  • We see clearly, a company is cock-a-hoop when suitable condition, but come up against truly cannot when the challenge of exceed, meet immediately all the way coast.
  • ‘Don't be too cock-a-hoop,’ he told Labour's enemies at the height of the party's crisis.
  • Every politician likes to be associated with good news and he was cock-a-hoop.
  • Villagers were cock-a-hoop today after the Army stepped in to save a new village hall that has stood empty for 14 years.
  • Why are the workers not entirely cock-a-hoop about the plans?
  • I was cock-a-hoop when most of my subjects seemed to respond positively to the stimulus most of the time. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • In summary then, you could say that I wasn't exactly cock-a-hoop when the summer holidays ended and the new school year began.
  • If it is not, then many MEPs will be cock-a-hoop.
  • In contrast, the candidate's supporters were cock-a-hoop.
  • Already the cock-a-hoop Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, licensed by Murdoch's rivals to bring about his downfall, are calling for statutory curbs on media ownership. The Murdoch story is not a Berlin Wall moment – just daft hysteria | Simon Jenkins
  • Far from being worried, I suspect Sir David is cock-a-hoop at the comparison.

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