Word: phrase
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...will say. "You can't sit there and tell me that is the best you can do." If you continue to resist, she will dismiss her entourage, then go at it, mano a mano, until someone relents. Says a close Rice adviser who has witnessed her technique: "The phrase 'hammer it out' comes to mind...
...She’s Got It All,” off Kenny Chesney’s 1997 gem, I Will Stand. I like his earlier stuff. As such, it pains me when perusing the Facebook profiles of my classmates, I so often encounter some permutation of the following phrase: “ill listen to nething, cept country...
...drop the T.S. Eliot references. But only if you promise not to waste your time and money on - oh, let's say Smokin' Aces. It's possible that in some half-forgotten pitch meeting someone murmured the phrase "black comedy" in describing their intentions for the movie. It is also possible that names like Scorsese or Tarantino or the Coen brothers were bandied about in that conclave. But what they meant to say was "blood bath...
Well, what did the King know, as we phrase these matters nowadays, and when did he know it? More important and more interest ing, how can a King (or President) order some action that he perhaps should not order, or that he would not want widely known as his order...
...Posing doggedly for Slavin's immense Polaroid, they make truly royal subjects: club members, drinking buddies, co-workers and choirs, all decked in the regalia of their proudest pastimes and fixed in the postures of their social roles. We see them keeping up appearances in every, sense of the phrase, whether they are the Distressed Gentlefolks Aid Association or the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, with their staff of almost 150, dwarfed by the mansion that will endure long after they are gone...