Sentences with phrase «going over like»

Talk about going over like the proverbial lead balloon!

A potential pay increase for state lawmakers is going over like a lead balloon for candidates running in key legislative races this fall.

Whether or not you feel like starting the website with a bunch of fake accounts is cheating, you have to admit it went over like gangbusters.

Wilson's speech at the BALLE BC conference went over like a lead balloon.

She cracks jokes that go over like lead.

ok, so the mega-churches, with all of their profits can provide health insurance for those unable... bet that'd go over like a beer fart on Sunday

Maybe the topic revolved around a social problem or political candidate and you knew that your contrary point of view would be go over like a BLT at a bar mitzvah.

That's going to go over like a fart in church.

I made lentil soup this weekend and it went over like a lead balloon!

His argument — «You may not like but you need me» — went over like a lead balloon with Alaska Republicans.

But it went over like a lead balloon.

We recently made a bacon wrapped pork tenderloin on the grill that went over like gangbusters... but prosciutto?!?! Count me in — that sounds even better...

The pitch for The Hangover from screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Four Christmases) must have gone over like gangbusters.

• Steve Pond reports on a screening of «The King's Speech» at the Academy, which went over like gangbusters.

In the year of La La Land, the Hungarian «Sing,» about a children's choir, sounds like the exact sort of uplifting escapism that might go over like gangbusters with Academy members.

And the flick went over like gangbusters with the crowd at the packed Arlington Theatre opening night gala yesterday.

I want to live in Wakanda, and gaguing from the reactions over on Twitter, it seems like this version of it has gone over like gangbusters, especially with black audiences.

Will presumably charm wee ones, and... go over like gangbusters with the holy rollers, but others may notice this comedy of faith skimps on the comedy.

In the meantime, the director's latest effort for cinema appears to have gone over like gangbusters.

Maybe it was the cultural divide or perhaps the language barrier, but my charla went over like a mercury - filled soap bubble.

I'd love to buy my family some stocks for Christmas, but I have a feeling that would go over like a lead balloon.

It would look good on billboards, and it certainly would get the attention of our World Cup visitors.And, at least for a little while last week, it looked like the sort of motto we could live up to.Or could we?Our collective opossum consciousness was raised when Doc Holliday and Johnny Magic, of radio station WXXL - FM (106.7), suggested turning one of the critters loose on a high - speed roadway as sort of a local variation on Groundhog Day.The idea went over like the proverbial foreign object in a punch bowl.

It went over like a ton of cement.

That goes over like a lead balloon.

It went over like a lead balloon, but Breitbart having lost its keenest scientific mind, Steve Bannon, content provider Richard has given last year's wheeze another go:

The solution, if there is one, is either to (i) provide greater public subsidies for legal aid / community clinics to serve a broader range of Ontarians or (ii) change the regulatory environment to allow for the cheaper provision of «routine» legal services by paralegals (this latter approach, I suspect, would go over like a lead balloon amongst my fellow lawyers).

I was so delighted that this recipe went over like hot cakes with the family.

Painting the vanity was pretty easy, I washed the cabinets with soap and water to make sure there was no dirt on them, I lightly sanded them, seriously I just took some sand paper and went over them like I was wiping them down, dusted the cabinet off, primed them by rolling the paint on with a small foam roller, let it cure for 24 hours and then rolled the black paint on with a small foam roller, waiting 24 hours between each coat.

Not exact matches

«It's almost how you must feel like before you go over the top in the war... There's that gnawing fear and worry,» he said.

I'd like to say I was smarter than my competitors, but I competed with guys who went to the Ivy League schools and they went to Harvard and Yale and Wharton over the years,» he says.

Ad costs have gone up like crazy over the last few years, and we expect this trend to continue.

They started from scratch, going from helping struggling startups to working for major brands like Avon, Uber, HTC, W Hotels, and Johnson & Johnson... and along the way collected over 2.3 million social followers.

Bill came up with the idea of a self - loading vehicle that could lift a bale over the front and drop it onto an inclined bed with a slick surface so, Larry says, «it would go down like a Slip»N Slide.»

We act like the interview is done, then call them back in and have them go over everyone they met, including their names and what they talked about.

That said, when they're with you, an empath is happy to spend lots of time together, even preferring alone time over going to «overwhelming» places like the mall or the movies.

Mark Merritt, CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), a trade group representing the 10 largest traditional PBMs, says that while «drug prices have gone up more than we'd like» over the years, his members have saved employers 25 %.

Although it sounds like this story is still far from over, here are some of the key moments in the rise, fall, and pivot Theranos has gone through in the past year.

«I think they're not high quality but something just for when I go over to the library,» says Andrew Schmid, 47, who says he likes the variety in the aisles.

Other large startups in need to big chunks of money, like Uber and DraftKings, have also gone the way of convertible debt over the past year.

The game of dominating the world's resources, nation - states and alliances is like a combination of Go and chess, with the threat of military conquest or defeat always hovering over the statecraft and financial game.

There's no shortage of suggestions on how to get over your social anxiety out there, but you're not going to like most of them.

The temptation to spend, especially in a city like New York, coupled with unexpected expenses, makes it all too easy to go over.

It always tends to be, and in this case, over a period of weeks of months of iterating through each of the technologies and going through what I like to call the aha moments where you say, «Well, that's different.»

Over the next 17 days, Butterfield typed out a pitch deck explaining what Slack would be: All your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go, a platform that «builds up to the edge» of other applications, like Excel or PowerPoint, but doesn't seek to reproduce them.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

And just like that, tens of millions of people's music collections, built over dozens of years and countless hours of careful listening — gone forever.

But the pixel / resolution chase feels more and more like an obsession over diminishing returns — a justifiable niche pursuit, but one that can't compete with gaming on - the - go.

I've finally figured out why I like it so much, and why other apps like Hicphat and even Yammer are going to be the defacto messaging tools in business over the next 5 - 10 years.

According to TMZ, which has been all over the coverage of Khloe's pregnancy and birth, the new mom has spent thousands of dollars on items like a BabyZen Yoyo Travel Stroller, a Medela Pump On - The - Go Station, and a Storksak Travel Diaper Bag.

When I have delusional thoughts that sometimes lead to paralyzing anxiety, I repeat simple mantras like «it's going to be okay» over and over again.