Sentences with phrase «about piddling»

Chris Christie's attack on Rand Paul - where Christie complained about piddling «esoteric» libertarian concerns voiced by people who were too cowardly to face «the widows and the orphans» of 9/11 - reminded me of something, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

Not exact matches

Contract negotiations at Arsenal are a joke, I don't know of any other club who piddle about like we do, players and agents know their worth, so if one club doesn't pay it, there is always another who will.

In the main tournament at Hialeah, first - round losers were to be paid a piddling $ 28, and the winner of the tournament could count on only $ 1,120, which, if he happened to have worked his way up through the qualifying, meant he would earn about $ 100 for each match won.

Abandoning all hope that it's about anything of even such piddling bumper - sticker consequence, The Village could also be a simple love story between a blind girl (Ivy Walker (Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron's spawn)-RRB- and a near - mute (Lucius Hunt (Joaquin Phoenix)-RRB-, but it's so wrapped up in justification for its twist that it lets the air out of its cotillion courtship in a slow hiss.

MOST people aren't going to max those out every year and STILL have enough money leftover to piddle about whether they should pay their mortgage off faster or invest more in other things.

Just a split second before your dog is about to piddle (this requires careful observation), pre-empt him by saying «Go potty!»

Her favorite answer of all was that the home was not worried about Ginger's piddle problem, as some of their seniors had the same problem!

In my case I've earned about 200,000 bonus points in the past two years but only a piddling number of base points, so clearly it's not as easy to meet this challenge.

PA, good reasons for not getting our kickers in a twist (Pommie expression) about events over a piddling 30 years or so.

Thinking about making an auto insurance claim for some piddling damage to your car, like that cracked windshield and broken side mirror?

But what can we say about HR, which fails to freak out about the money it spends on services like Monster.com... (over a $ billion in 2008) for a piddling return of about 3 %?

But the husband «receives» the message that his wife must not care much about him because she spends all morning in the kitchen instead of outside supporting him; the wife «receives» the message that her husband must not care much about her because although she is hard at work in the kitchen, her husband «isolates» himself from her by spending time «piddling» in the yard instead of coming inside to be with her.

I hadn't previously given a toss about Karl's marriage break up, but my friend Claudia came over for dinner on Friday night and was demanding answers from me — as an ex-weekly magazine editor — for why Karl just rolled over and gave his ex a quickie $ 6million financial settlement while only keeping a piddling $ 500,000 for himself.