skewwhiff

The worst thing to go wrong was when the Fighting Machine got caught in its own wiring and it was just dangling there skewwhiff. I'm looking up at it and having to keep playing, but nobody said anything."

And yet, here we are surrounded by thousands of them that don't do their job properly - skewwhiff road signs that point slightly off direction or vanish altogether so you spend the next three days spinning round a one-way system; 20% off signs on a row of jackets that the sales assistant insists isn't reduced; "express queue" signs above a crocodile of sluggish shoppers moving in slow motion towards the till.

Brian Clemenson's charge was a bit skewwhiff at traprise, but that apart was footperfect in defeating the useful Bell Legend by three lengths.

Skewwhiff tie, sleeves of jumper stretched to a foot too long, oh and I'll just use my shoes as brakes.

BOTTOM So tight that the pockets are skewwhiff and I can't sit down.

At the time my life went skewwhiff and I saw no way out.