Sentences with phrase «drag anchor»

At other sites, boats dragging anchors and nets — or just scraping along the sea floor — have damaged or destroyed reefs.

Therefore, grade up the 56 - 10 score in Clemson's blowout of the Eagles to something like 73 - 10, since Clemson simply would have scored more had they not had the restrictor plate / dragging anchor of Alumni Stadium.

Whenever Green shows up to do his semi-improvised, non-acting shtick... this otherwise sprightly and intermittently amusing movie suddenly feels like a ship dragging its anchor.

Such an alcoholic is «dragging his anchor» because of his drinking.

On his first three tries McKee and his companions were plagued by motor failure, dragging anchors, swamping, foul weather and bad air, heavy seas and tides, injury, sickness and sharp arguments fomented by charges and countercharges of illegal activity — in short, the routine troubles that wreck hunters come to expect.

«We can be liberated from the drag anchor and the poison that is Jeremy and his team and would be able to take the fight to the Tories.»

The sheer weight of Ed Milband as a drag anchor on Labour was unveiled and was quite startling - as was the disastrous failure of Labour to even come close to regaining any semblance of economic credibility.

For New Labour the unions were and are a drag anchor on the lurch to the right.

Labour's union, council, public sector and, increasingly tenuous, business links act as a drag anchor on some of its more crackpot elements.

Such a chimera, however, carries with it the burden of some late sentimentality and The In - Laws, for all the energy of its first two - thirds, stumbles across the finish line at the end, trailing some redemptive falderal about being a good father like a drag anchor.

You can easily remove delicate seagrass and break up the coral reef, be sure to use the right anchor for the area you are fishing in, motor up your boat to stop it dragging the anchor when retrieving.