Sentences with phrase «fish on dry land»

As a story, it's an interesting idea, but very poorly conceived characters and situations galore take the legs out from under the screenplay and the film flops around like a fish on dry land, gasping desperately for life before ultimately dying a painful and pathetic death about a half hour before the film's too - long - in - coming ending.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land it fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it can not hurt you.

Mr. Gru should just stop playing him out of his favourable position (it's like leaving a fish on dry land and expecting it to swim).

Not exact matches

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

Flies landed at will on the dried fish we were about to purchase.

Clark Gable is still recovering emotionally from his first Steelhead, a bright fish which he took on a dry fly and which jumped 11 times before he finally landed it.

All meats, of course, are perishable, but in fish the process occurs faster — largely because fish are designed for temperatures lower than those on dry land.

Several fish hatcheries that had shut down will be restocked, and fishing boats that had long been stranded on dry land may be pressed into service again.

Fish first began crawling on to dry land about 400 million years ago, kicking off an evolutionary chain of events that led to us.

The latest salvo in Macro-Nutrient Land is the Calorie Restriction Diet, inspired by animal experiments in which mice, guppies, water fleas, yeast, spiders, Labrador retrievers, a microscopic water invertebrate called the rotifer, and rhesus monkeys are said to live longer on diets that restrict caloric intake.13 Researchers are encouraged by the longevity of a single monkey who has reached 38 years on a diet in which the portion of monkey chow — dried compressed pellets of wheat, corn, soybean, alfalfa, fish and brewer's yeast — has been cut by 30 percent compared to controls.

They spend their days alternating between agile underwater fishing, followed by rest periods stretched out to dry on the boulders that mark the point where land meets sea.

Back on dry land you can explore the nearby fishing village, or head into the Núi Chúa National Park with a guide to catch a glimpse of sun bears and grazing deer.

Once back on dry land your crew will be happy to prepare the fish (de-scale and gut) so that you can take them to a local restaurant to be cooked the way you like it, or to take back to your rental property to eat and enjoy at home.

Head further out to sea to for fishing and diving, or stay on dry land for some beachside horseback riding.

However, with me at least, a bit part of the deal is the increased acidity reducing fish harvests, water shortages, droughts severely reducing crops (sure — more rain, but more over the ocean, less on land — and with greater evaporation before the water trickles to a dry stream bed), increased heat reducing rice production and other heat sensative crops, the heat waves, etc..