Sentences with phrase «as goose»

Years later, another man educated me to a wonderful West Virginia simile, which describes a politician who is «as slick as goose poop on a hoe handle.»

First, a grammarnasty natter: will people (this means U, George) PLEASE learn that «loose» means untie, or release (as a verb) as in «loose as a goose»?

Barely escaping with her life, Ani disguises herself as a goose girl and wanders on the royal estate.

In drift mode, with the traction control off, you have to really yank the steering wheel to the inside as you goose the throttle.

As a goose flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the goose which follows, so that the second goose expends less effort flying.

Slowly, she begins view him as goose laying golden eggs of free verse... and we start to realize we're dealing with an unhealthy anti-heroine.

silly as a goose I'm a country girl so i have great morals when it comes to treating a woman right!!

Feathers are usually pointed out as goose down or waterfowl down.

No basting needed as the goose fat does its job.

The child tapped as goose needs to chase the child around the circle.

Then you shall see hard pulling, as goose and pike pull against one another.

They render their staffers as goose chasers, wasting time if not company money.

«Investors look at that today as a goose egg,» Marsh says.

Theoretical models had previously shown that the V formation, seen in other migratory birds such as geese, could enable trailing birds to save energy.

Experts believe their analysis of conflicts involving large grazing birds — such as geese and cranes — across Europe could have a positive impact across the globe.

In recent decades, there has been a rapid increase in the number of large grazing birds — such as geese and cranes — across Europe.

If enhanced availability of maize leads to even more wintering geese in Denmark, this may cause conflicts with agriculture as the geese may turn to other crops, including grass fields in spring and winter crops.

Recently, BBC television presenter Michaela Strachan danced and sang a remake of Grease as Geese to celebrate the autumn migration.

Snakes, insects and birds such as geese, use their hiss sound to drive...

Snakes, insects and birds such as geese, use their hiss sound to drive off predators and our domesticated pets have an instinctive sensitivity to this sound.

The Yorkey's Knob property has an 18 acre Billabong in the middle of the property which is home to a huge array of migrating birds and animals such as geese, peacocks, ducks and even a resident crocodile or two so make sure you bring your camera along to take some pictures.

Unlike the other games of the series, I & II Chronicles actually takes place in and around the Land of Ys (pronounced as Geese minus the G) and is the starting point of Adol's adventures.

The drawing contains a bird (identified in Basquiat's distinctive handwriting as GEESE) perched above some hieroglyphic - like symbols — a motif the artist later xeroxed and incorporated into another series of works focusing on iconography from ancient Egypt.

I agree that it is your home and you should love it and wall paper certainly does make a personal statement (the apples are almost as ubiquitous as the geese with bows around their necks), but if you should need to sell, please take it down before you put the house on the market.

We watch as the geese fly in and out during the seasons.

Not exact matches

The bank sees it as unneccesary and views the cash stockpiles as the only available lever to goose the economy.

The Geese will be on the ground too, as «members of the Goose family (will) be zipping around Park City sporting Goose,» the blog says.

The explosion of «free money» gooses demand briefly, but then debt, even at low interest rates, never declines; and as another bust inevitably follows this latest debt - fueled boom, then the debt becomes increasingly burdensome as income and wealth both plummet.

But while a wide assortment of creatures classified as «exotic» make wonderful pets — in addition to the ones previously mentioned, an exotic menagerie could include gerbils and even rats to geckos, iguanas, nonvenomous snakes, hedgehogs, fennec foxes and geese — some exotic animals do not.

The wage pop [last Friday's 2.9 % growth in hourly wages] spooked the markets because investors, already skittish as valuations were a bit steep (though not as bad as people have been saying, given strong current and expected corporate earnings), envisioned this sequence: wage growth gooses price growth (i.e., inflation), which raises both market and Federal Reserve interest rates, which slows growth and shaves corporate profit margins.

(The user count no longer includes SMS Fast Followers, users who add Twitter via text - message outside of the U.S.; It is a group Twitter was criticized for including in past user totals as a way to goose their numbers.)

The rabbis imagined her as a pigeon, the Celts a wild goose.

Pope Benedict XVI himself has said that an «industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.»

Nobody can assess the mental qualities of a dog without having once possessed the love of one, and the same thing applies to many other intelligent socially living animals, such as ravens, jackdaws, large parrots, wild geese and monkeys.

As soon as they finish their research into giant beanstalks to solve the world hunger problem and geese that lay golden eggs to fix our economAs soon as they finish their research into giant beanstalks to solve the world hunger problem and geese that lay golden eggs to fix our economas they finish their research into giant beanstalks to solve the world hunger problem and geese that lay golden eggs to fix our economy.

In the days before Christmas, when I lived there, Moscow took on the mythical characteristics of the East, as old women wrapped in black took up station on street corners, selling fresh - killed geese raised in snowy clearings.

The muffled whoosh of the vacuum as it cleans up powdered sugar after the girls made «goose poop» cookies (Russian Tea Cakes).

There was green alligators and long - necked geese Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born The loveliest of all was the unicorn

You'll see green alligators and long - necked geese Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born You're never gonna see no unicorns

as he follows the tracks of the skunk in the January snow; wondering where the skunk is beading and why; speculating on the different meanings of a winter thaw for the mouse whose snow burrow has collapsed and the owl who has just made dinner on the mouse; trying to understand the honking of the geese as they circle the pond; and wondering what the world must look like to a muskrat eye - deep in the swamp.

One couple told of standing together high on a hill in November listening in silence to the far - away honking of wild geese as they made a jagged V lumbering across the sky.

There has never been anything half as lovely written about waterfowl of the family Anatidae as Lancelot's words about seeing «geese on the islands — long smoke lines of them singing like hounds in the cold streak of morning» as he sails to the Grail island.

● Combine 1 cup applesauce, 1/4 cup grated horseradish, and 1 teaspoon Hungarian paprika to use as an accompaniment to roasted turkey, goose, duck, or pork.

As we moved on, the cows followed us nonchalantly behind us, every pair of eyes were on us, on our movements... gave me the goose bumps like they were seizing the chance to pounce on us unsuspectingly.

As the aspen turn gold and the robins re-gather and the first flights of southbound geese murmur overhead during the night, another farming season, too, draws to close.

The Bacardi brand portfolio comprises more than 200 brands and labels, including BACARDÍ ® rum, the world's best - selling and most - awarded rum, as well as the world's most - awarded spirit; GREY GOOSE ® vodka, the world's leading super-premium vodka; DEWAR»S ® Blended Scotch whisky, the world's most - awarded blended Scotch and the number - one selling premium blended Scotch whisky in the United States; BOMBAY SAPPHIRE ® gin, the top - valued premium gin in the world; MARTINI ® vermouth and sparkling wines, the world's leading vermouth and the world's favorite Italian sparkling wines; CAZADORES ® 100 % blue agave tequila, one of the most popular premium tequilas in Mexico and the United States; and other leading and emerging brands including WILLIAM LAWSON»S ®, the fastest - growing global Scotch whisky brand; ERISTOFF ® vodka, one of the fastest - growing vodka brands in the world; and ST - GERMAIN ®, a super-premium elderflower liqueur.

Decks also grills local, free - range lamb, chicken, and molard — described on the menu as «a cross between a wild goose and domestic duck.».

Prior to his role within Customer Marketing, Tom was VP - Brand Managing Director of BOMBAY SAPPHIRE and MARTINI & ROSSI for North America, responsible for brand strategy, activity planning and management of business performance, as well as Global Vice President for GREY GOOSE.

Sure, it may not be as much of a showstopper as a crown roast of pork or an elegant roast goose, but when prepared properly, a pot roast will be far more tender, delicate, and memorable than any of these typical centerpieces.

The Bacardi brand portfolio includes more than 200 brands and labels including BACARDI ® rum, the world's best - selling and most - awarded rum, as well as the world ¹ s most - awarded spirit; GREY GOOSE ® vodka, the world's leading super premium vodka; DEWAR»S ® Blended Scotch whisky, the world's most awarded blended Scotch and the number - one selling premium blended Scotch whisky in the United States; BOMBAY SAPPHIRE ® gin, the top - valued premium gin in the world; MARTINI ® vermouth and sparkling wines, the world's leading vermouth and the world's favorite Italian sparkling wines; CAZADORES ® 100 % blue agave tequila, one of the most popular premium tequilas in Mexico and the United States; and other leading and emerging brands, most of which are sold globally.