Citations:bijou problemette
English citations of bijou problemette, bijou problemettes, and bijoux problemettes
Noun: "(UK, informal, humorous) a little fault or problem" edit
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- 1986 April, “More and More Lucky Winners”, in Crash, number 27, Ludlow: Newsfield, page 64:
- Courtesy of the CRASH OOPS! Department, a bijou problemette cropped up in the February Edition with the typesetting on DURELL's Win a Video Competition [...] we didn't get all the typesetting out of the machine and, the bit that we missed explained the prizes.
- 1994 December 3, Graham Higgins, “Re: New to misc.writingville”, in misc.writing[1] (Usenet):
- I happened to mention in passing that The Fair Lady Ngaio (TFLN) and I were keen to ask some of our neighbours in mwville to stay for the weekend but we had a bijou problemette in that whilst we could reasonably describe the lighthouse as being "just a short stroll from the beach", an eight-hour trip in a balloon (stationary with respect to the planet's rotation) could hardly be termed "handy for the shops".
- 1995 May 21, James Callin, “Re: Simon on CD”, in comp.sys.acorn.games[2] (Usenet):
- This is a bijou problemette - yes it does happen, and was one consequence of making sure that the game worked on 2Meg machines, however, there are over 3000 sampled texts in the game, and only 27 (or so) of them are loaded in more than one chunk.
- 1997 April, “Sorry About This”, in Acorn User, Macclesfield: IDG Media, page 81:
- In David Matthewman's March HTML article last month there was a bijou problemette where the double hyphens - - in the comment examples were converted to long dashes — by our very clever conversion software.
- 2001 July 15, anon2765, “Re: 6k of Oatsack Status Report -- apologies for length”, in uk.media.radio.archers[8] (Usenet):
- As a result of these bijou problemettes, I have at present the choice of a chair in front of the computer-desk, or a mattress three foot wide in the gap between the desk and a wardrobe, which amounts to a choice, of an evening, between using the computer or reading, and on the whole I am opting for reading, especially since every book I possess seems to be in boxes around me.
- 2001 November 15, Keith Simpson, Member of Parliament for Mid Norfolk, “Landfill Sites”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)[9], volume 374, United Kingdom: House of Commons, column 973:
- Like other hon. Members, I think that the Minister is due for promotion to the shadow Cabinet. [...] I think that he is due for promotion to the shadow Cabinet before the real Cabinet because there is a bijou problemette in promoting him. The Minister has made a lot of the Government's policy on landfill sites, with the important claim that there should be recycling. Will he explain how, at present, Britain recycles only 6 per cent. of our household waste [...]
- 2007 April 26, Karel Kriz, “Re: Relax, the planet is fine”, in soc.culture.czecho-slovak[12] (Usenet):
- Good idea! But there is a bijou problemette. I took my handy- dandy mankind-energy-output-meter to a pawn shop ( so I could pay for the electricity and my computer would work), so I cannot take any measurements today, Maybe manana, but not today.
- 2013 October 2, ppint. at pplay (username), “Re: the balfour declaration”, in alt.fan.pratchett[15] (Usenet):
- so italy had a couple of bijoux problemettes; mussolini had more, once he’d been dismissed as leader of the fascist party, and from leading the government of the country, he was arrested and gaoled by the italians…
- 2019, Jodi Taylor, Hope for the Best, Headline, →ISBN:
- I hadn't been in her office since the bijou problemette with Grint's nose
- 2019 December 18, Bobbie Bobster, “UK General Election Dec 2019”, in manxforums.com[16]:
- Lads, lads. I think there might be a bit of a bijou problemette with this whole Brexit thing