(1) Good old Edna - she's a real trouper to do the washing-up without even being asked!

(2) Thanks for helping, you're a real trouper .

(3) He took his disappointment like a trouper.

(4) Like the old trouper he is, he timed his entry to perfection.

(5) She went through all the rituals like a trouper.

(6) Eric was a real trouper, helping his mother when he could.

(7) But Maisie proved to be a real trouper - just like her mum.

(8) She is the same wholehearted trouper she has been through war and peace for three generations.

(9) Thanks for helping, you are a real trouper.

(10) He was even trouper enough to go to the interview room after the game although he couldn't sit down, and conducted the interview standing up, talking into a hand-held microphone.

(11) For this old trouper there is still no business like show business.

(12) Your date is a trouper. They thought they had weathered your storm but the reality is you are just getting warmed up.

(13) Super Trouper beams are gonna blind me, but I won't feel blue like I always do.

(14) He stole the spotlight, one reporter wrote, "with the studied nonchalance of an old vaudeville trouper."

(15) Of course I can trust him, he is my old trouper!

(16) "There's got to be an easier way to get a standing ovation, " said Mr. Douglas, who spoke little but sounded good, and stood out as the kind of trouper Hollywood and its fans both love.

(1) Good old Edna - she's a real trouper to do the washing-up without even being asked!