snotty-nosed

"I'm just a snotty-nosed kid from Highfield near Rowlands Gill - I really didn't think I was in with a chance.

She said once, 'I've been in the business for 10 years and this snotty-nosed punk comes along and gets a show.' No matter what, to her I'm just the Antichrist."

It's not every day a snotty-nosed teenager walks in and asks for the latest Bryan Ferry album.

As our pages this week make clear, South Wales had its fair share of bands, from snotty-nosed punks to the smart-suited smoothies looking to give Duran Duran a run for their money.

And thinking about it, would I have wanted a snotty-nosed, two-year-old fidget-bum poking the back of my chair for three hours, screaming that it needs a poo and then being sick over my head when I was kid-free?

"[Hubert] said once, 'I've been in the business for 10 years and this snotty-nosed punk comes along and gets a show.' No matter what, to her I'm just the AntiChrist," Smith said.

Apart from a brief hiatus with John Hall, in my time we've always been the snotty-nosed kid with his nose pressed against the toy shop window.

It's the sort of thing you'd expect from a mischievous, snotty-nosed kid at the back of a classroom.

"Isn't it boring seeing all those snotty-nosed kids?"

"Isn't it boring seeing all those snotty-nosed kids?" This isn't the first time I've heard this question from one of my colleagues who wouldn't think of laying his stethoscope on anyone under the age of 25.

And ahead of today's clash Bruce, 49, said: "For two snotty-nosed horrible little kids from Wallsend, I suppose we've not done too badly, have we?

The caption reads: "Jumped and sat on by snotty-nosed kids, flashbulbs continually going off in your face, chainstore window fronts as your only view, periodically scratched and cr***ed on from on high, sold as a postcard in city centre newskiosks...