Sentences with phrase «catches a fly in»

► Many witches fly on brooms, and a man riding on one of the brooms catches a fly in his mouth and gags.

Despite assuring reporters last summer, after being caught flying in a private jet, that she would pay to offset greenhouse gases from her campaign travels, Mrs. Clinton has yet to make any such payments, according to a Washington Times analysis.

Not exact matches

We can get caught up in the petty day - to - day grievances, become sidelined by our own stressors, or let sarcasm fly unattended.

Their minds be as reprobates never catching the glimpses of that which flies by in the mind's eye.

Recently while flying home from Portland, I had my nose buried in a book, and the bright yellow dust jacket caught the flight attendant's eye.

To get to South Africa, we first flew from Albuquerque to Minneapolis, where we caught a flight to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.

«Hawaii might have day boats that catch the fish that day, bring it in, sell it, and it goes on a plane and flies to Vancouver right away,» he says.

I did the same thing with rabies vaccination or injection or whatever when my cat caught a bat, which escaped in the house and ended up flying into my head (it didn't end well for the bat unfortunately as he escaped, and then got caught again — this is veggie catfood for you, creates a super cat!).

If the ball clears the sidewalk, and the fielder, who is stationed in the street, fails to catch it on the fly, each of its subsequent bounces represents the advance of a base.

The No Fly Zone is still going to be really, really good, and if the front seven catches fire late in the season like they did in 2015, then all sorts of good things will happen for Broncos fans.

As we stated at the open, Michael Pisanelli would hurl the ball to the right block, flying just over the outstretched arms of the Defender and Oren Schwartz would catch it and lay it in (while in mid-air) as the buzzer sounded.

The crux of the report is Paolantonio alleges the new catch rule — passed by a unanimous vote Tuesday — was «already in place» for Super Bowl 52 and officials were «basically legislating on the fly» during the game instead of sticking to the standards of the 2017 season.

He's been one of the best in the world, and the Nationals essentially flew a banner above the ballpark that reads, «Dude can't catch.»

Here's what happened in this bandwagon scenario: This person's heart was carved out by a Benihana chef and cooked in front of them, knives flying, and they even did that trick where they flipped the heart up and caught it in their shirt pocket.

Milwaukee Shortstop Robin Yount caught the ball on the first - base side of second and swept down with his glove hand at Henderson, who was in the dirt now, crash - landing on his chest with his arms extended and his batting helmet flying off toward leftfield.

I can see us having trouble catching up with Manchester City, who are the only club to get off to a flying start this time around but Jose Mourinho seems to have lost it in this campaign.

Jacoby Ellsbury hit a deep fly ball to center field with the bases loaded in the third inning, but Carrera, who is replacing recently traded Austin Jackson, made the diving catch to save multiple runs from scoring.

The front row of the upper deck in right overhangs the field by about 10 feet, catching fly balls and turning them into home runs.

We wouldn't be caught dead participating in one of your pathetic 5 - man protests, fighting in the stands like utter imbeciles, spending thousands of dollars trying to sabotage team morale before a game with plane - flown banners or any of the other embarrassing spectacles you create which the sports tabloids thrive on.

«I'll never know why, at the single worst possible moment, I missed a fly ball I've caught thousands of times in batting practice,» Brown says.

In last night's Freeway Series between the LA Dodgers and Angels, Yasiel Puig got a little too nonchalant after catching a fly ball that Albert Pujols was able to tag up on him.

His goal clearance flew past Alex Stepney in the opposition goal after being caught by a gust of wind.

From Men in Blazers: Rog and Davo catch their breathe after Swansea's seismic upset of high - flying Liverpool and recap a rebound win for Manchester City and Pep Guardiola, football's biggest BILF.

Given how important social media is in the current day it is difficult for any deal to fly under the radar without supporters catching wind of it.

A little motion catches your eye and you glance at your four - year - old just in time to see a meatball fly across the table from a small, sauce - covered hand.

I think it's the way that frogs can poke out their tongue that makes me laugh as they catch flies around the pond on a summer's day and this DIY Frog Party Blower Craft for Kids from Mommy's Bundle captures that perfectly in a really fun craft and then toy to play with.

Try not to make it too long, as these kites are better for catching low drag wind than they are at actually flying up in the air.

Many dads spend hours with their kids playing catch and having them field pop flies and grounders in the back yard.

I just adore all the Tank Bubble's and the Romper's in all the fabric but the Dragon fly's caught my eye..

(«you catch more flies with honey...») Just dumping an airline blanket in my lap made me feel pretty worthless.

So technically not completely free as you will need a kite — but a cheap one will do for the kids and can be used easily if the wind is not too much — now we haven't tried at the park as I'm always afraid of it getting caught in the trees but in autumn and winter the beach is fantastic for kite flying.

If it is heavy, a bang on the head could be the result of hands flailing around wildly with a heavy piece of silver in one of them - not to mention someone being hit when caught in the line of fire of a flying rattle.

The catch, of course, is that opposition to the Iraq war DID chime with public opinion, while the income tax proposal did not fly in the face of growing disenchantment.

His flying email concept might still seem a bit far - fetched, but steering sound exactly where it is wanted is already catching on elsewhere in a number of different real - world applications.

Discover caught up with Baltimore on his final presidential vacation at his second home near Missoula, Montana, where his plans to fly - fish were interrupted by our questions about the future of AIDS prevention, the usefulness of stem cell research, and what really happened in the most famous fraud scandal prior to this year's South Korean stem cell debacle.

The salamanders use their tongues to catch insects literally on the fly, and the evidence, published in February in the Journal of Experimental Biology by a group of researchers led by Stephen M. Deban of the University of South Florida, suggests that these amphibians owe their dead - shot abilities to a ballistic projection mechanism that powers their rapid - fire tongue thrusts: In effect the tongue launches from the mouth like an arrow from a boin February in the Journal of Experimental Biology by a group of researchers led by Stephen M. Deban of the University of South Florida, suggests that these amphibians owe their dead - shot abilities to a ballistic projection mechanism that powers their rapid - fire tongue thrusts: In effect the tongue launches from the mouth like an arrow from a boin the Journal of Experimental Biology by a group of researchers led by Stephen M. Deban of the University of South Florida, suggests that these amphibians owe their dead - shot abilities to a ballistic projection mechanism that powers their rapid - fire tongue thrusts: In effect the tongue launches from the mouth like an arrow from a boIn effect the tongue launches from the mouth like an arrow from a bow.

«Obviously, fly - fishermen aren't interested in making mini sonic booms when they try to catch fish,» Kommers says.

To catch a fish, a fly - fisher sends out a wispy lure attached to an almost invisible 7 - to 15 - foot - long leader, which is in turn attached to a thicker and much longer braided line.

In Taiwan's current system, a red alert is issued when the number of flies caught in a trap surges beyond 1024 in a 10 - day perioIn Taiwan's current system, a red alert is issued when the number of flies caught in a trap surges beyond 1024 in a 10 - day perioin a trap surges beyond 1024 in a 10 - day perioin a 10 - day period.

Jettisoning these weights tilted the capsule so it could catch air and fly across the Martian landscape much like a skydiver in a wingsuit.

«In the deep sea they have sponges that almost look like fly - eating plants, with long radials that are extremely sticky and catch anything that comes through the water column,» she says.

We went to Barbados and after that, we caught up with a NASA team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during its expedition flying through Hurricane Earl in 2010.

The first step in learning about McBeath, Schaffer, and Kaiser's work, of course, was not to talk to McBeath, Schaffer, and Kaiser themselves but to spend some time in a major - league stadium talking to the athletes for whom catching fly balls is both calling and career.

Unlike a fly you see from the stands, however — which inscribes an arc on the way up and on the way down — the balls in our camera frame never came down, continuing to travel up into the air until they were caught at the very top of their flight.»

The puzzle of just how a fly ball is tracked and caught had been explored before — as long ago as the 1960s — by a professor of aeronautics at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New York, who had come up with a theory known as the Optical Acceleration Cancellation model, or OAC.

If, as the old proverb goes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, it's because most of today's birds can swiftly fly away before you can catch them.

So Webster began his own investigations into the source of the ailment and his mysterious case would eventually pique the interest of California health officials and convince an entomologist named Tom Schwan to fly halfway across the country in order to catch ticks inside the historic observatory.

In about 20 per cent of the wild - caught flies Treponema - DNA was found.

In effect, quantum naysayers like Einstein would have to swallow the spider of nonrealism to catch the fly of nonlocality.

When the Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, flew by Europa, it caught a tiny blip on the moon's edge that people thought might be a plume, but it could not be confirmed.