It is not a matter, therefore, of beinghoity-toityabout it on our part.
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I ask him not to behoity-toityand encourage hoity-toitiness on the part of his opposite number.
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I ask that, please, we should not behoity-toityabout the wages of people who are receiving just over £50 a week as against what the directors receive.
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He is ahoity-toityyet conservative man worried about values and aesthetics in present society.
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