Sentences with phrase «from pulling a rabbit out of a hat»
He was a magician, and the Sabbath was big business, but his withered hand was preventing him from pulling a rabbit out of a hat, and the Herodians demanded this trick under penalty of torture and death.
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The evangelist pulls meanings out of words like rabbits from a silk hat: born from above may mean born again; the wind that blows where it wills may just be the Spirit wafting through the empty regions of our lives.
Either way, don't be surprise if one of these deals does eventually come off, although it's equally likely that Levy will pull a rabbit out of the hat as he did with the # 8m signing of Rafa van der Vaart from Real Madrid two years ago.
Arsenal are famous for pulling the rabbit out of the hat when under pressure in Europe, and even Luis Suarez agreed that the tie was far from over.
Equipped in every department with world - class calibre, Bayern always seemed to have a rabbit to pull out of the hat: a vital save from goalkeeper Manuel Neuer; the electrifying overlapping of full - backs Philipp Lahm and David Alaba; or Brazilian centre - back Dante galvanising his colleagues by word or deed.
Blackburn to did pull a rabbit out of the hat at the Reebok not so long ago in a game we thought they would struggle to get anything from, so perhaps Rovers are no forlorn hope.
And the rabbit Bondi then pulls out of the hat, from his combination of Galileo's principle, special relativity and the gravitational red shift, is that the resulting theory only works in curved space - time — that is, the geometry of the Universe is non-Euclidean.
En route to a surprising resolution, director Simien pulls a couple of rabbits out of his hat while lacing his dialogue with pithy lines («Learn to modulate your blackness up or down depending on the crowd and what you want from them.»)
Any figures I've seen or done myself suggest the price is overwhelming to the world economy, unless someone pulls a technological rabbet (er, excuse me, rabbit) out of a hat and manages to reduce the cost per tonne of CO2 from US$ 300 - US $ 600 to cents per tonne, and preferably fractions of one.