snaffle up

Any pet owner is familiar with animals' tendency to snaffle up meals which have been lovingly prepared for the family.

But if Ford is smart it will exploit its status as the only financial virtuous US carmaker to snaffle up greater market share.

But too much is merely random or sophomoric showing-off: why, for instance, does Ottavio snaffle up the Commendatore’s fob-watch?

Following the death of her husband, the land-hungry British annexed Jhansi under a doctrine that enabled them to snaffle up princely states.

Indeed, far from liquidating assets, the chat over banquets in Shanghai and Beijing is how to snaffle up bigger bargains overseas.

The collar of esses is exactly the sort of object that, a century ago, William Waldorf Astor would have hoped to snaffle up.

He did almost snaffle up a chance after James Forrest’s shot had been blocked by Vladimir Stojkovic, but the ball fell a couple of feet too far away from him.

It is a setting this true heroine of Scottish football deserves, although, typically for someone so modest, she yesterday fretted about being able to snaffle up a ticket for the big match.

Guy Street - Old Broome $285,000 Situated in the heart of Old Broome is this fantastic investment property just waiting for the astute investor to snaffle up.

These deals ticked all the right boxes: fat income streams for bankers, cash for riskier borrowers who lacked track records, and high-yielding assets for hedge funds to snaffle up.

Findley draws a save from Kingson and the ball rebounds hard enough off the keeper's boot to scupper an instant second attack Dempsey tries another shot from distance, but Kingson gathers it with Findley waiting to snaffle up any loose catches.

Many of the music festivals in the UK this year have been populated by an older crowd -- 40-somethings who have high speed broadband to snaffle up the tickets quickly and enough cash and credit cards not to feel the pinch of tickets that are often over $200.

After springing the kind of full court press, charge to the halfway line offside-trap that now looks as dated and antiquated as Betamax and flares, Dalglish was presented with the kind of chance the least gifted Sunday league player, or even Chris Iwelumo, would snaffle up.