Sentences with phrase «golden shovel»

The phrase "golden shovel" means turning something positive into something negative. It refers to a situation where someone takes something good or valuable and uses it for their own selfish or improper purposes. Full definition
I'm a great manager who loves a mountain of work on my desk and a team full of people with golden shovels.
Golden shovels in hand, town supervisor Jeanne Walsh and Town Board members past and present pried up clumps of sod on the site where a gleaming new pool is slated to replace the old one in time for the 2016 swimming season.
Golden trees appear only in Animal Crossing, where golden shovels and NES games grow from it.
PS 209 in Queens, Clearview Gardens Elementary School, was the borough winner for the Department of Sanitation's Golden Apple Award for the Reduce and Reuse Challenge as well as the Queens Golden Shovel Award winner.
Even though current software offerings are early stage solutions to PIM problems, we can not wait and hope for software vendors to provide the «proverbial golden shovel» and bail us out of this problem.
California state senator Ted Gaines delivered a golden shovel to Tesla headquarters.
They can be grown by burying bells in the ground with a golden shovel.
The festivities included a ceremonial «golden shovel» ground breaking and speeches from the Mayor, President of the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce, and Pelican owners and senior leadership.
Maybe a new armor skin (s) for you second playthrough or after collecting all of X (jewels, orbs, etc), like maybe Golden Armor, or maybe just a Golden Shovel skin?
Her work is included in many anthologies, most recently, Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear; The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks; BAX: Best American Experiment Writing, 2016; and Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin.
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