awkward customer

This protects the sensitive information, but can create an awkward customer interaction.

If any young elephants are in the herd, the mothers frequently prove awkward customers.

A long scene at the blackboard with an awkward customer among his ranks worried the actor.

Perhaps pressure from his local boss or party secretary would revise the awkward customer's views in an acceptable direction.

Tell you, she very awkward customer, think p'raps you done better stop there and marry her.

'There'll be no awkward customers as long as I'm in charge!' said Mary grimly.

Stephen was a tender-hearted young man, and for all his soft and indolent ways, an awkward customer when roused.

Very awkward customer, Major."

'If you have any awkward customers, you can call up the potboy from the cellar, can't you?'

While I was reflecting on the Baboon-woman's strange story, and thinking that she was an exceedingly awkward customer, the path took a sudden turn.

Susan's husband, Gregory, is a dispensing chemist who had been responsible for deliberately administering a nonlethal overdose to an awkward customer.

This is a desirable thing to accomplish with wild buffaloes, as they may, frequently prove awkward customers, even after receiving several mortal wounds from light guns.

'Awkward Customer.'

It is not difficult to please nine out of ten people, so regard the difficult and awkward customer as a challenge which will prove your skill in human relations.

The same article quoted friends who described her as "a frightful bully, a very awkward customer", while she refers to herself as "bossy, arrogant and practically unemployable".

Productions include Awkward Customers, More Akward Customers, Who Sold You This, Then?

She was an awkward customer, with her formidable gunnery and her repeated attempts at crossing the Lord Nelson's bows; she would be more awkward still at close quarters.

I don't think it was the best thing to do, but from the report sent to me I fancy Okubo is an awkward customer who likes things done according to his own ideas.

Despite being rushed, unfinished and disowned by its subject - making it perhaps the first ever unauthorised autobiography - this book is surprisingly revealing about one of the most infuriating and self-defeating awkward customers ever to have been born.

But things have changed and you would not get long odds on Brazil winning the forthcoming World Championships on home soil, while African teams such as Angola have become awkward customers for the best of teams.

I remembered Father telling me that every book worth over £5 had its cost written in code at the back so that his staff could tell at a glance how much discount to allow awkward customers but he hadn't explained how the code worked.

It would have helped him if the two most awkward customers in the political equation - Sinn Fein and the DUP - had been given a drubbing by the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists respectively.

A hard man to dissuade once his mind was made up (and an awkward customer at the best of times), Antheime had decided that he would return to a dropping ground and reception committee organized by the highly suspect Phono circuit, of which Noor was an active member.