But can a man get a drop of the
real stuff there?" said a sailor who liked his toddy.
You're the
real stuff." He looked with undisguised contempt across the sleepers to where Charles Crayton snored in his red beard.
So, now, old coon," said he to the man at the bar, "get us hot water, and sugar, and cigars, and plenty of the
real stuff and we'll have a blow-out."
"Merely preliminary and precautionary," he explained when I had finished; "but now for the
real stuff."
We had a good preseason and now the
real stuff is coming - you can feel it in the air.
"We were hamstrung by a lack of players being available for the cup games but the
real stuff starts now and it is up to us to ensure we have a fast start."
Even false turf, it seems, needs properly laying by digging up the
real stuff first, providing a base and finding some way of fixing it in place other than six-inch nails.
Very few people put
real stuff out there - ie their day's been rubbish, they've got no money and they look like they've been dragged through a hedge backwards - and I think it has a really negative impact on people's mental health.
By the time August arrives, most players are itching furiously for the
real stuff to begin, glad to see the back of the shadow boxing.
there is some
real stuff that happens in the future.