Sentences with phrase «burr under the saddle»

Christopher Anderson: That makes a lot of sense and it also sounds like you have a much higher likelihood of bringing someone on board who's going to meld into your team rather than become a burr under the saddle.

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Economics is supposed to provide mathematical modelling of human behaviour, but the apparent divergence of economic theory from reality in recent years has become a burr under Orrell's saddle.

«America's leading historian of education» (New York Times) and a burr under Klein's saddle for most of his eight - year tenure, Ravitch is more restrained here than usual.

In the battle for hearts and minds, the one issue that seems to annoy the wind industry like a burr under a frisky pony's saddle blanket is the wholesale slaughter of millions of birds and bats.