Sentences with phrase «for plonking»

It's fast to setup and doesn't take up much space, perfect for plonking it down on a relatively small table and then crowding some friends around with a few beers.

With that said though, most people don't sign up for the Plonk wine of the month club in order to get special discounts.

Not exact matches

The Plonk Wine Club earned the # 4 wine of the month club spot for the 10th year in a row for their incredibly low introductory offer of $ 69.99 for 12 bottles, which includes a professional corkscrew worth $ 49.99.

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Plus, it is still smarting from its experiences in the early 2000s when it bought BRL Hardy at the top of the market for $ 1.9 billion and watched most of that value get frittered away as the Australian dollar rose and the glory days of cheap plonk exports to the UK and US disappeared.

What is a slap in the face is the all the Aussie plonk that has been shifted down the gullets of unsuspecting consumers for the last 20 years.

no one ordered the man to build a strike force around walcott and giroud or to put a quid on suarez «s asking price or to bring in nogo and park (or perez for that matter) or to sell gnabry and play iwobi regularly or to have ramsey playing in every position bar goalkeeper or to take 7 years to work out how to get the best from Ox or to believe merteshaker was alright for the epl when he was way past his international sell by date or to forego a world class DM for 5 years and then plonk down 30 odd mill on an average swiss international or try out a series of makeshift right backs and hope bellerin would maintain his earlier form and fitness... stan n`chips and co are certainly a shocking example of contemporary football ownership but on the pitch its all down to wenger and his delusions

At the Portuguese GP that year Martini led a single lap - the only time Minardi ever did so - and when the car was used at the start of 1990, Martini managed to plonk it on the front row at Phoenix for the team's best ever grid slot.

1997 was looking ominous when Jacques Villeneuve plonked his Williams on pole for the first race in Melbourne by a massive 1.7 seconds, but when he was taken out by Eddie Irvine at the first corner, the race was thrown wide open.

Carlos Sainz ended his final race for Toro Rosso in the gravel on the first lap, and Marcus Ericsson plonked his Sauber in the barriers at the second Degner.

Uncle Ken took a different approach, not only picking the team for the next game, but plonking himself on the bench too between substitutes and archetypal hired goons.

Snark, but really, your comment cracked me up as justification for why Elicia just happened to plonk down where she did.

What I like least about being a mom: Not being able to plonk on the couch with a good book and escape for as long as it takes.

What I'd like for Mother's Day: To plonk on the couch with a big box of chocolates that I don't have to share while I watch my daughter getting to know her new baby brother.

The Tory leader watched Cowell explain his idea on Newsnight, for «some kind of referendum - type TV show where you can speak on both sides and then open it up to the public to get an instant poll», although Cameron was a bit more wary of the suggestion that Cowell would plonk a red telephone on stage so that No 10 could ring in to make its case.

Simply plonk this in the middle of the table and let your friends get to work, with chunks of bread for scooping

From heir website: «It is ideal for finding nooks and crannies to plonk yourself down, squeeze up, budge up, move along, let me in, you are sitting on my jacket, your elbow is in my ribs, it's your turn to go to the bar...» We couldn't have said it better.

Marc Shaiman's score may make clever period choices (backing eyelash flutters with a plonk of the xylophone, for instance), but almost every line of dialogue is tainted with as much irony as charm, transforming the film's script into a self - conscious anachronism.

This film version plonks Neil Simon's Broadway smash on screen without rethinking it for celluloid.

It's a plodding, plonking, clonking, clanking vanity project, watching which is like drowning in suet or being alone for two hours in the kind of airless hotel room that Hughes reputedly holed up in.

Yea, I'll definitely plonk down a Hamilton and a Lincoln for a company who can't even spell DRAGON properly.

The casting was bad across the board: as for Chattrisse Dolabaille's Missy Elliott, it's as if they plonked a baseball cap on a passing stranger.

So yeah... brilliant... pay a godawful fortune for a bottle of» vintage» vinegar / plonk with a fancy label on it.

The power - packed sports car plonks a high capacity 3.8 litre, V6 engine good for towering power of 562bhp and top torque of 637Nm.

A diesel engine will also be plonked for specific markets like India.

According to Skoda, there's big demand for a big spec sporty Superb, so they're answering that demand by plonking -LSB-...]

Since external looks is not enough reason to plonk in for a buy in this segment, the interiors play an important role to satisfy the comfort of buyers.

So if you're a budding wine enthusiastic looking for some handy tips on how to distinguish the good stuff from the plonk, check out our guide to choosing a brilliant wine every time.

And, if you are in a position where you typically save up for a plane ticket before plonking down your cash or credit card, you'll have a hard time implementing travel hacking tips.

The beach is a bit scruffier here and we'd say if you're looking for a patch of sand to lay on, it's worth walking north, past the road head and the enormous statue, and plonking yourself down on the jet black sand.

For the second time around I like to change the look completely... so if they are tall like this, cut «em off and change the whole look and feel with the vase... first off, to be very honest, these were just plonked in the biggest vase I could find when they arrrived... but I didn't want to let them go to waste without some Beach Cottage foofing: --RRB-

Multiplayer wouldn't come along for a while, so it was entirely expected that you would plonk down on a seat, fire up a game and enjoy it by yourself.

Sometimes these effects can only be activated once, and other times they can be activated for each instance of the symbol, thus by plonking down a certain card at the end of your turn you could potentially gain a massive increase in power or recruiting points.

We've plonked both vids here in this post (hit the jump for the alpha gameplay footage) so you can marvel at the similarities and the slight differences.

I could talk about the painful voice acting, the singularly cringe - worthy cut - scenes, the innumerable graphics glitches, or the moments in the game where you die for no apparent reason (especially in the snowboarding level, which is a particularly low point in gameplay terms as it even manages to feature checkpoints that you can miss by a whisker and then continue playing, only to be plonked right back at the start of the level when you inevitably die by running into a pile of rocks that you couldn't see because the camera was pointed the wrong way).

Plonk it on its side and Microsoft won't be held responsible for your discs getting scratched.

Chaos Reborn has had a single - player mode of sorts for around a year now, but that just plonked you in regular ol' battles against the AI, or in «hotseat» battles against your fellow humans.

I'm an unashamed - well, sort of ashamed - Zelda fan, and if it weren't for the dire financial situation I am currently in, I'm almost certain I'd have sauntered in, plonked cash on the till and walked out with a Wii and Link's latest adventure.

The Nintendo 2DS is aimed squarely at two types of people: Nintendo fanboys (and girls) and consumers (and their kids) who have always been curious about Nintendo's handheld platforms, but could never justify plonking down the money for one of them.

Unlike some people, I don't have Mighty No. 9 backer's remorse, but I'd rather plonk down cash for more of those games.

Two of the plates here representing the origins of the Earth could be mistaken for pop art if you plonked them in a white cube space.

«Right now architecture and sculpture are calling to each other, and calling for response that's intelligent, not for more ghastly lumps of sculpture... which have no sense of scale and are just plonked down in public places.»

When new data comes along — pointed ears, for example — rather than just plonking it out there and relying on the public to remember the other bits, we should make sure in each paper that we briefly run over the whole thing again so the public can again draw an educated conclusion.

Up until the iPhone 8 and beyond, wireless charging had to be a sore spot for many iOS devotees; Android flagships had been charging without wires for a few years, and that's why it's so important now that cases don't impact on their ability to just plonk their device down on a pad and walk away.

It's easy to go ga - ga over a handset that offers so much for so low a price, but there are certain things you should know about it before you plonk down your hard - earned money.

Buying the best workstation for your business isn't just about plonking down cash for the most powerful laptop money can buy.

And so, the default setting for Huawei's smartphones sees apps plonked on the home screen, just like iOS.

For all that extra money, just buy a decent phone and plonk in the 128 GB memory card.

A chastening moment came yesterday when I posted: «I went out with some girlfriends for a drink and an overdue catch - up last night and an inebriated guy plonked himself down and asked to join us.

On the shoes display side — I just plonked my divine 3 inch pink glitter stilettos that I wore for our wedding smack on the top of my chest of drawers and they looked FAB!