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Glad to get the spitting the dummy thing cleared up.

Also recognisable - and fortunately interpreted - as spitting the dummy.

They don't use our expression "spitting the dummy" in the UK.

Also - what does "spitting the dummy" mean?

Has the Search function spat the dummy again??

'Spat the dummy, but it looked like the tantrum of a helpless man.

The songs had been recorded during the band's 'Spit the Dummy' farewell tour.

Te Graun has no disagreements in principle with United Russia but just wants to spit the dummy out. '

However, that was compounded by the P5+1 reacting rather petulantly (as in the baby "spitting the dummy" - the modern term may be "pacifier"?!)

The Gurus commenced their final Australian tour, the three-month 'Spit the Dummy' tour, in October 1997.

It was originally released as a 2CD set to coincide with the band's 1997 farewell tour of Australia (the 'Spit The Dummy' tour).

So the tactical error was intially Iran's for offering too much and prompting the political outcry at home over it, but then the P5+1 for spitting the dummy over Iran's necessary change of position.

I've heard that Macca and Ringo are to be drafted in to give it one last shot this year and if we cannot bring the trophy home then Cameron will spit the dummy out and tell Merkel and the Midget to do one.