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n. (context Australia informal English) (alternative form of Buckley's chance English)
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W.K. Buckley Limited is a Canadian corporation founded in 1919, by William Knapp Buckley, that manufactures medicines for health problems such as the common cold. They also have children's medicine which are sold under the brand Jack & Jill. The company is located in Mississauga, Ontario.
In 1978, after W.K. Buckley's death, his adopted son Frank Buckley became the president of the company. In the mid-1980s, Frank became spokesperson promoting the "It Tastes Awful. And It Works." slogan, which became very successful.
Novartis, the Swiss-based conglomerate with 2005 sales of $32 billion, purchased ownership of the Buckley's brand and formulas in 2002 effectively denying a third generation run at leading Buckley's by Frank's son Donald. The remaining Buckley company, William Knapp Limited, which provides Marketing consultancy services, is effectively led by David Rieger, The Vice President of Marketing reporting directly to Frank Buckley. Prior to this position, Mr. Rieger held a number of other senior positions with the Buckley organization and with the Novartis conglomerate. As of 2013, Buckley's has not been on sale in the US due to factory issues, and has been reputed to sell on Amazon for ten times the original price.
Usage examples of "buckley's".
He held his son in his lap, and as he spoke, he felt Buckley's small body on his knee—the very human, very warm, very alive weight of it.
On the table in the family room Buckley's crayons were scattered across the butcher paper my mother had laid down.
Knew how in my house my mother had tried to decorate it to accommodate Buckley's late arrival by stenciling battleships along the top of the pink walls.
My father took Buckley's hand and stood him in front of Len, who solemnly bent down to my brother.
My father took pleasure in the agile body of his five-year-old son and Buckley's peals of delight when Holiday knocked him over and nudged him with his nose or licked his face with his long pink tongue.
Mimicking my mother, he taped it to the fridge in the same place Buckley's long-forgotten drawing of the Inbetween had been.
Just near Buckley's ears and on the tips of his cheeks and chin he was a little orange somehow, a little red.
I could see Buckley's hands move over the curved front-wheel casing of a red minibike.
But when she looked up and through the window, she swore she saw a young girl wearing the clothes of her youth sitting outside Buckley's garden-shed fort and staring back at her.
I did not hold court in the mirror above her head or stand in miniature at the tip of every bristle on Lindsey's or Buckley's toothbrush.
Downstairs Hal was holding Buckley's wrist as it held the brush stick.
We do things that leave humans stumped and grateful, like Buckley's garden coming up one year, all of its crazy jumble of plants blooming all at once.
She turned the buckley's AI emulation all the way off to use the PDA as a dumb cube reader and inserted the cube.
Half of Buckley's journalistic success depended on that simple fact, which infected even the journalists of the time.
Only a few details differed in Buckley's account from the reports Nasi had gotten himself.