Sentences with phrase «as a fiddle on»

India Oxenberg looked fit as a fiddle on Saturday — because she's finally able to eat, an insider told Page Six.

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As they wait on their lunch orders — there is much suspicious fiddling with the McWrap packaging — the group is encouraged to scrawl suggestions on chalkboards attached to one wall:

A minister with only a client - centered string on his counseling fiddle often feels guilty or blocked in counseling situations requiring the constructive exercise of authority, functioning as a teacher - counselor, or serving a parishioner emotionally in a feeding role.

What do they want from us as they hold their sign at the stoplight while we fiddle with the radio knobs on our car dashboard?

It will call to you from the refrigerator while you fiddle with your stir - fry for dinner; it will entice you while you recline on the couch to watch your soap opera; it will torment you as you slog through another session on the treadmill; it will whisper to you while you lie in bed and think about what to write in tomorrow's blog post.

I remember a few things: she mixed the dough by hand in a big bowl and minimally — as soon as it came together she stopped fiddling with it and proceeded to forming biscuits; her dough was very soft; she had melted butter in her biscuit baking pan and doused each side of each biscuit as she laid them on the pan; and when the biscuits were done they were served piping hot out of the oven.

He was second fiddle to Zlatan Ibra at PSG, and was forced into playing in a foreign position on the RW all season where previously at Napoli and earlier he was bred and groomed as a central striker.

Martinez, will probably go out on loan as well with Macey, iliev and Huddart rotating around the 3rd choice keeper role or may be a «retiring keeper» might be happy to play 3rd fiddle and collect his wages.

2) Yes it is a bloody fiddle and we can all see that Rael Madrid HAVE as usual drawn the minnows but what on earth can we do about it?

It might be a possibilty that we may change the pattern and opt for 3 instead of 2 on the bench but still will Coquelin be happy to play as a second fiddle to Morgan since he has performed excellently since his comeback — and will it not hamper his development??

Greedy Stan Kronke is only concerned with making money, and if Usmanov sells up then we are in it deep cos Wenger will continue to steal a living from the club as will that clown Walcott.We are also rans, there is no real desire to spend a penny more than necessary and every year Wenger fiddles around at the edges of the team but never really completes the job, I'm sick of watching the same game over and over, Wenger waving his arms about but doing the like for like subs on about 70 mins as usual while Bouldy sticks to his vow of silence, we are a joke among the top teams, and if Wenger signs a new deal then I may have to take a 2 year sabbatical cos I'm sick of the man and his bu # * ~ $ t press conferences,

I am mindful of not blathering on all so very much here about Taproot as I know you don't come here for just that, but the work and our new space has been what's filling my moments when I'm not on the college search / fiddle lessons / homeschooling / dance classes / theater rehearsals / farming duties.

It started late and went poorly: Golisano, a self - made executive, seethed as Smith fiddled on his BlackBerry.

Shame on the Congressional Clown pols that are fiddling for personal gain and posturing as the nation and the financial markets wobbled through another week, uncertain that in the end the folks that represent the people will get it at least partially right.

I Am A Great Manis a hilarious mockumentary that follows idealistic documentary film - maker Sebastian Rake (Baker) as he embarks on a quest to prove that not all politicians are expense - fiddling conmen.

MacShane had previously written an article for The Guardian in which he played down the expenses scandal, writing, «There will come a moment when moats and manure, bath plugs and tampons will be seen as a wonderful moment of British fiddling, but more on a Dad's Army scale than the real corruption of politics.»

In his Budget speech on Wednesday, Mr Osborne boasted that unlike under previous governments his figures «are not fiddled but fair and independent» as they are audited by the Office for Budget Responsibility.

Keep in mind that they aren't as optimized for fiddling with the remote as some other earbuds on our list, so they are best for people who don't mind reaching for their phone occasionally.

By fiddling with the cytoskeletons of real - life hydras, researchers found that the pond polyps rely on mechanical forces as well as molecular cues to regenerate head and tentacles in the right places (SN: 3/4/17, p. 19).

Craig and Chapman were inspired by Talitha Getty, as well as by some of Chapman's fabulous vacations, on which she «fiddled with her own collection of printed scarves,» wearing them in different ways.

A gold bench finished with a blue and white cushion sits on a cream rug at the foot of a bed, as a fiddle leaf plant is positioned on under windows flanking a blue art piece hung from a gray wall.

In a recent New York Times profile, musician John Mayer said he does nt go out much but does fiddle around on an exclusive dating app, though said app goes unnamed, as it.

You'll be able to change Kratos and Atreus» expressions, as well as fiddle with the aperture, add some borders and throw on a filter.

He has morphed from the androgynous alien kid in long - running 90s TV hit Third Rock from the Sun to the teen gay hustler in Gregg Araki's 2004 film Mysterious Skin, bouncing on through characters as varied as (500) Days of Summer's lovelorn romeo, Hesher's charismatically violent burnout, and Inception's corporate dream - fiddling crook.

Undisguised by a perfectly plummy accent, Lake Bell's signature dorky charm lends distinction to this overnight tale of two lovelorn misfits struck by Cupid on a sabotaged blind date — with Simon Pegg sportingly playing second fiddle as her accidental suitor.

Owen Wilson's career took off alongside Stiller, initially as his second fiddle and more recently on his own and with others.

As they line up, several boys at the back of the line are play punching or low level strangling, several students have hats on, and many are fiddling with their smartphones.

As I sit here writing this, I still have to fiddle with the button to get the light to come on.

This new Supersports hasn't bothered to go on much of a diet, is available with only four seats and doesn't fiddle with the torque distribution, the rear track or even the suspension settings: springs, bars and dampers are all the same as a standard Continental Speed, as are the tyres.

The dual - screen setup makes sense in theory: Whatever you have up top, such as the navigation map, stays visible while you fiddle with stereo, climate or phone activities on the bottom screen (just not Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, which aren't included).

As much as I love firing off a quick heel - and - toe downshift on a back road, it is nice to not have to fiddle with gear selection just to pass a Prius on the freewaAs much as I love firing off a quick heel - and - toe downshift on a back road, it is nice to not have to fiddle with gear selection just to pass a Prius on the freewaas I love firing off a quick heel - and - toe downshift on a back road, it is nice to not have to fiddle with gear selection just to pass a Prius on the freeway.

Those three things are responsible for your conversion rate, so I'd focus on them first, make sure they'll all working for you really well, before you waste months (as most authors do) fiddling with your website.

If you really need more storage at all times on your ereader, as somebody else pointed out, you can replace the SD card inside your Kobo Glo, which is admittedly not everyone's cup of tea (especially since it'll likely void the warranty, and require some fiddling with software to prepare the new card properly with the OS for the Kobo).

I began fiddling with the fringe on my head scarf, a habit my mother always urged me to break, as Hajj Ali explained that no harm would come to paper, books, or the art of writing; that earthquakes would occur in the south but would be mild; and that there would be battles great enough to tinge the Caspian Sea red with blood.

, what a joy, as she sang da - da - da -, placed me on hold, then fiddled about and finally said she couldn't help (though this was the number I was advised to immediately call, and that a department that could help refused to take the call but I could try back in 48 hours and they might take the call then.)

Bladestar, you now sound like the fiddle players on the sinking Titanic as it went down, continuing to play, inspite of knowing their fate.

One moment, you'll be fiddling with the buttons and controls of a CCTV system, trying to keep an eye on Keech as you wanders through his casino, the next you'll spot some paper balls and a mini basketball net to try and chuck them through.

That's right, no needing to fiddle with the ear cups, as finding the perfect notch on normals bands is always a pain.

At that point you can line up your shots, apply filters as you might on Instagram, fiddle with FOV and depth - of - field, change the position of the sun in order to get the perfect shadows or the exact right time of day and more.

As the»90s went on, Disney Animation's productions played second fiddle to animated features made by an independent studio, Pixar, that was later acquired by Disney in 2006.

I always fiddled with computers as soon as they were on the market.

It doesn't seem so, and in some ways the entire week felt like a gigantic exercise in expectation management: Crossed Arms, Legitimate Constraints & Fidgeting Phone Use The exercise began at the opening ceremony, where body language seemed to reveal the subtext of the speeches: From Tony Blair's nonchalance and statements on how establishing a path was more important that specific targets, to Todd Stern's crossed arms and not - so - thinly veiled reference to «legitimate constraints» in US politics, to India's environment minister seemingly frustrated by it all, at times resting his head on his hands or fiddling with his Blackberry, all with an air of «nothing important is going to happen here», what wasn't verbalized was as important as what was.

If I see a whole field of endeavour actively resisting any external scrutiny of their work, I am just as suspicious of them as I was of the chef programmer who worked alone nights on the organisation's core financial system, had complete change control authority and turns up to work in a car way beyond his pay grade (true story — I caught him fiddling the subcontractor's payroll ledger)

There is a spread of 3 - plus degrees C between models as to the average temperature of the globe, so there is some fiddling with the physics going on.

also i think you'll find that little things such as the CRU data leak which showed them to be a bunch of number fiddling and lying turds also throw doubt on the human cause of any climate change.

Read all of the original article: As Europe Fiddles, US May Take Lead on Climate Change Solar Thermal Power Solar Thermal Power in North Africa: How Much Land to Power the World?

If there was not as much warming, as would be the case if Tim's suggestion of data fiddling is taken as correct, there would be less solar influence on warming.

They referred to notes on scattered bits of paper as they spoke and fiddled with getting overhead slides turned in the right direction so we could read them at the back of the class.

As always, before you dive into setting up a new router it's wise to write down the settings on your old router to reduce the amount of time you spend fiddling with connected devices (changing the Wi - Fi SSID and password to your old one, for example, saves you from resetting every Wi - Fi device in your house).

I'll continue to fiddle with Oreo as I work on our full review, but one thing seems clear: it's the most powerful, accessible version of Android I've played with so far, and that bodes well for the Pixel 2 and 2 XL.