Sentences with phrase «by shutting up shop»

I'm sorry but he now needs a number 2 that can say hold on mate this is how we win by shutting up shop and win ugly

Not exact matches

The key uncertainty is how much the data has been distorted by the fall of China's annual Lunar New Year holidays, which were in February this year and in January in 2012 and which typically see factories shut up shop for two weeks.

Decades after WA's butter factories shut up shop, an enterprising couple in the South West is capitalising on a global butter resurgence by opening the state's only commercial - scale butter factory.

Beat a top team and we are lucky, beat a lower team and we should be beating them anyway, lose when playing a too risky brand of football and we are inept, win a tight game playing ugly it is not acceptable nor the Arsenal way, win by 3 goals and it should have been 5, keep playing the same predictable way every game and we should vary it more, vary our pattern of play and we should go back to doing what we used to, win 2 - 0 and keep a clean sheet and we should have been more adventurous to improve goal difference, win 2 - 1 and concede in the last minute and we were naive not to shut up shop, win 12 out of the last 15 games and it should have been 15 wins......... blah, blah.

Why would Alexis do that These days when a player signs as a «free agent» he will.ask for a signing on fee and his salary will be set high... depending upon his marketability.Defoe signed for Bournemouth on a «free» and received a very healthy fee himself as well as a reported # 100k a week.Imahine what Alexis could negotiate in January... and after that he can just about «shut up shop» as far as Arsenal are concerned... going through the motions until the end of the Season on preparation for the World Cup followed by his lucrative move to a new Club Once again Arsenal made the wrong decision and have shot themselves in both feet #shambles

West Ham 0 — 0 Man City The Hammers shut up shop and continued their fine home form by stifling...

But apart from the window slamming shut we get all the final day drama with all the usual jargon, last minute dramatic swoops, pictures of helicopters that may or may not contain David Luiz, phones buzzing, alleged sightings at motorway service stations or petrol stations anywhere, Ronaldo or Messi shopping at the Westfield shopping centre, Valencia in the back of a cab in Swansea or Liverpool (or putting his feet up in Ecuador), everyone with their sources, players spotted at training grounds, Jack Wilshere driving his car to Bournemouth, last minute intervention by Daniel Levy who suddenly decides he wants Sissoko, and descriptions of transfers or done deals or rumours using words like amazing, dramatic, sensational, shocking, exciting, impressive or incredible.

It does after all enable us to share photos with family abroad, keep in touch with everyone by email, or other social sites, go shopping late at night when the shops are shut, keep us up to date on local or world affairs — and enable us to connect with other adults who may be looking for friendship.

Tangerine is a heartwarming tale of humanity punctuated by the clack of prostitutes» heels on sun - baked L.A. streets, by screaming matches in divey motels, and the admonishments of a doughnut - shop owner threatening to call the cops if everybody doesn't shut up.

As of now, the 15 - year - old Williams has only one more role lined up, in a 3 - part TV ghost story airing in the UK in October «The Secret of Crickley Hall,» but frankly, if she doesn't have a whole lot more on her dance card by this time next year, well, we may have to shut up shop for a while here and write her a goddamn lead ourselves.

Major global investment banks, including Citibank and Goldman Sachs, set up shop on Bay Street in the 1990s to share in the debt bonanza but were shut out by the domestic Canadian dealers.

By September though, life is slowing down and some businesses shut up shop.

A beloved classic from a well - regarded developer that shut - up shop somewhat prematurely, the PS3 game sees all aspects of the original classic restored and upgraded, based in no small part on the original assets, designs and concept work created by Oddworld Inhabitants themselves so long ago.

Over the past several years, estate boards that once authenticated works by Andy Warhol, Jean - Michel Basquiat and the pop master Roy Liechtenstein have shut up shop.

«Even if we stopped emitting all carbon dioxide tomorrow, completely shut up shop and went back to the Stone Age, according to the official government climate models it would be cooler in 2050 by about 0.015 degrees.»