Sentences with phrase «cats in a bag»

In a December 2013 Fortune article, the metaphor called for «five cats in a bag.»

«Many employees describe Mike Bloomberg's management style as putting «cats in a bag» to see which will emerge alive.

The point is for Mike Bloomberg to have cats in a bag.

(Says a former high - level company executive of Mike, as he's known inside Bloomberg and as we'll refer to him to avoid confusion: «Mike's management philosophy is five cats in a bag fighting.»)

does he have another cat in his bag?

Even Tory backbenchers, the nearest human approximation to cats in a bag, have a new discipline following Lynton Crosby's arrival.

And it was also clear that after two weeks of his ministers fighting like cats in a bag, Cameron had failed to establish message discipline.

To say that ministers are fighting like cats in a bag does a disservice to cats, who at least know what they want and how they might achieve it.

As to the cat in the bag metaphor, I think an Amazonian cover charge and a gaggle of poorly paid editors weeding out submissions goes a long way toward re-packaging the feline in question.

In other words, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer are buying a cat in the bag and hoping it's not a rat when we open the bag a year or two from now.

(Not that we would ever encourage anybody to put a cat in a bag.)»

If possible, leave the head exposed, but if the cat is very aggressive, it will be safer to put the entire cat in the bag.

I remembered that growing up I would visit my friend whose father was an abstract painter, and on his studio wall was a poster of Wool's Cats in Bag Bags in River (1990).

And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas

: Cats In Bag Bags In River, Rotterdam 1991 Luhring Augustine Gallery (Ed.)

There are some good people working hard to advance the toxicology and analytical science to support risk assessment of nano materials, many of whom know that we need to keep the cats in the bag until we know what we are doing because one or two high - profile cases of illnesses arising due to nanotechnology will cause the public to lose faith in what is a very promising technology.

The fact that to perhaps the majority of those who acquire and study a copy of (for example) a Finance Act it constitutes what might be described as a tool of their trades or professions or avocations in no way lessens the benefit to the community that results if accurate versions of that Finance Act are published and not kept like a cat in a bag to be let out haphazard.

They might fight like two cats in a bag sometimes, but they get closer every day.»

PS Sprog 1 still likes pretending she's an animal, the Polly Pockets are getting a renewed workout in the playroom and the Sprogs are best friends (when they're not fighting like two cats in a bag)... the more things change, the more they stay the same...

Not exact matches

As titillating as it might be to read Andreessen's text messages to Zuckerberg, however — in which the former quotes from a 1950's film noir with Burt Lancaster, remarking «The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river» — the whole thing feels like a bit of a sideshow.

For others, the agency recommends removing them from their original containers and mixing them with something undesirable like cat litter or coffee grounds then putting them in a container like a plastic bag and throwing them away.

Good on you, Rosett, but, now that the cat's out of the bag and making the rounds in Google search results, let's hope the feeling lasts — and the new gig, too.

I put my cat and a bag of essentials in my car and headed to my sister's house in Rosenberg, Texas, which is in Fort Bend County between Houston and Victoria.

The cat has long since been out of the bag; it is an open secret, this fact of the church's pluralism in its interpretation of the resurrection.

The signatories to «Beyond Same - Sex Marriage» really are, as I said in my posting, letting the cat out of the bag.

The cat is really out of the bag now on putting cider in caramels.

Sarma Melngailis and Matthew Kenney in «Raw Food, Real World» note that cats tend to be attracted to it and can rip open bags and containers of the product.

Now the cat is out the bag, it can't go back in again.

At least that was the case until today, when something Arsene said in his press conference ahead of tomorrow's home clash with Championship bound Sunderland may have let the cat out of the bag.

The cat is well and truly out of the bag with our fifth place finish, and the thumping we took in Europe.

Club graduate Dominic Calvert - Lewin bagged an impressive double against the Black Cats last night, and Koeman admits that the Englishman has a good future ahead, should he progress in the right way.

We're putting together a Seuss Quiet Bag which we'll be adding to over time, and I'm working on making a Cat in the Hat Calm - Me - Jar for our bBag which we'll be adding to over time, and I'm working on making a Cat in the Hat Calm - Me - Jar for our bagbag.

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For her 3rd birthday in January we gave each family a copy of the book «All Cats Have Aspergers Syndrome» to take home instead of a lolly bag.

Play a Cat in the Hat style balancing game and use the cat's hat for a mystery bCat in the Hat style balancing game and use the cat's hat for a mystery bcat's hat for a mystery bag.

Letting the cat out of the bag on who will be his minister for Trade and Industry, Nana Addo, announced the 61 - year - old Alan John Kwadwo Kyeremanten and reposed confidence in him, but dictated to the Majority to use their numbers to approve him.

10 million cedis Peruvian hair nicely woven on her skull in a way that makes her blush World trade center bag effortlessly fixed on the radius of her arm without a dash Off to town she sets, cat - walking and parading herself like a model Where...

«The most powerful Tory in Britain has let the cat out of the bag.

Scientists at the University of Florida Particle Engineering Research Center and personal products manufacturer Kimberly - Clark recently found an answer by coating silica nanoparticles with copper ions, a potent odor - fighting combination that could be used in powders and spritzes, mixed with cat litter, or embedded in products like garbage bags.

Some scientists have expressed concern that marching coats science in a partisan sheen; others say that cat is long out of the bag.

Would she have acted in the same way toward a conscious boy, a cat, a teddy bear, or a bag of potato chips?

But if you're able to look at it in infrared light, you would no longer see the paper bag, but rather a cat who is pretty ticked at being chosen to illustrate my clever analogy.

... So, they are saying that we can wait... until the cat is OUT of the bag, before we make a move to KEEP IT IN THE BAG.bag, before we make a move to KEEP IT IN THE BAG.BAG....

Instead, it's recommended that you mix Rx pills with something like dirt, cat litter, or coffee grounds to make them less appealing to someone to dig out of the garbage, then seal that undesirable mixture in a plastic bag or container and throw the whole shebang away.

By the way, I have a cat obsessed with plastic bags in my house too, except she must bite them, not just lick them.

That cat bag in your montage is gorgeous!

In terms of accessories, bamboo handle bags are also very popular at the moment, as well as asymmetric earrings and the small cat eye sunglasses.

My personal favorites were cute little cat bag, nail decoration flake set with 8 different types of glitter in it and tiny bow stickers I sticked to anything I laid my hands on lately.

dress Banana Republic tie - neck floral maxi shirt dress — LOVE this one / / similar and $ 29 / / similar & avail in tall / / similar but short sleeve / / similar from Shein shoes Marc Fisher chelsea bootie in black leather — same from Bloomingdales / / similar and less than $ 100 / / similar and on sale bag Gucci marmont matelasse shoulder bag in nude — smaller version / / similar and $ 13 earrings c / o Amanda Deer fan ear jackets in gold necklace Anthropologie monogram pendant necklace — similar with turquoise beads sunglasses Le Specs air heart 51 mm sunglasses in black & gold — similar but more cat eye / / similar but more rectangular (love these) rings Gorjana amara ring set / / Amanda Deer c / o CZ solitaire ring / / Amanda Deer c / o CZ accents midi ring

There are probably five or more of Nina's tops hanging in my closet (oops, the cat's outta the bag!).