Sentences with phrase «goose up»

Storm - proof your windows and goose up your heating and plumbing systems to impress insurers and qualify for lower rates.

In part, this comes down to location: there are two first rate second - hand bookshops within five minutes» walk, and I once saw a man walk a goose up Bell Street on a leash.

Others like hedge funds have compensation structures that offer them a fraction of the returns generated, and in an atmosphere of low returns, the desire to goose them up increases.

Summer tips to goose up your publicity during the summer.

Though Thompson herself pops into the film now and again to goose it up (as the warmly supportive Lady Eastlake, a sympathetic ear to Effie), the mood is quiet, slow, shadowy.

As journalist Ed Yong has reported, psychologists often goose up the statistical significance of their research to get it published, while failed replication studies regularly get rejected by psychology journals.

Many a wife would have stuck one goose up each nostril, beak first!

Okay, I admit that I'll use a mix when I'm in a pinch — but I usually goose it up à la Cake Mix Doctor.

Stylistically, Puss in Boots embraces some of Tex Avery's manic sensibilities (a character leaving a shadow cut - out of himself when crashing through a barrier, for instance), and is cheekily self - aware without being postmodern; various chase sequences are superlative examples of action animation, meanwhile, goosed up even further by the movie's stereoscopic 3 - D presentation.

More recently, some experts have recommended goosing up the stock part by subtracting the age from 110.

I'm thinking a witch hat & cape, dress her up like Santa, you know how folks dress those dumb geese up.

Not exact matches

«I get goose bumps up and down my spine when that happens.

You can try to do this nicely — say, by sneaking up on the ducks in the middle of the night, whisking their little goose - down pillows from beneath their sleeping heads and pressing them down on their beaks before they even know what hit them — but it's quite illegal.

Currently, we type our question into the search engine and the algorithm chooses words from it, often sending us on a wild goose chase by bringing up links that have those specific words in them rather than finding links that relate to the context of the overall query.

After passing through the market town of Aguacatán, where women in white - and - red huipiles sell everything from garlic to geese, I headed 45 minutes up a mountain to the village of Chex, where I found a cargo truck that had careened over the side of a road.

«Empirical studies have shown that up to 95 % of random risk — that an investment unexpectedly produces an irreversible, goose - eggreturn — can be mitigated with a portfolio of 12 — 15 investments.

More than 1,400 Ontario households may soon get an unexpected gift: the miracle of alternating current electricity, with which to heat their homes and roast their geese and snuggle up on the couch and watch The Muppet Christmas Carol.

Like a groggy - eyed Jonah waking up from a nap in the dark hull of a boat and giving incoherent answers to questions from desperate sailors caught in a life - threatening storm, we step out of our churches still tingling from the goose - bump worship experience, and give incoherent answers to our neighbors about the problems with their marriage, their wayward pregnant daughter, their drug - abusing son, and what God wants from them to fix it all.

In the days before Christmas, when I lived there, Moscow took on the mythical characteristics of the East, as old women wrapped in black took up station on street corners, selling fresh - killed geese raised in snowy clearings.

According to the charity, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), ducks and geese can be force - fed grain and fat up to three times a day, causing their liver to swell up to ten times it's regular sizes.

The muffled whoosh of the vacuum as it cleans up powdered sugar after the girls made «goose poop» cookies (Russian Tea Cakes).

I'd grown up hunting geese and ducks, so had some limited experience in cooking wild game, and had seen the Christmas Goose dinner in too many old movies and stories to count, so it seemed like a stellar idea.

My husband LOVE»S it and so many stories he and his bestie from college tell start with «that one time we were drinking goose island...» he loves it so much in fact that my father - in - law made a side trip to pick some up last year while visiting C's grandparents.

Poultry are good and were cheap in Ceylon, a fine fowl being had for six fanams, or ninepence; geese, turkeys, and ducks are equally moderate, but ducks are in bad repute in consequence of their dirty habits in feeding, the natives allowing them to pick up any filth about their huts, where they are reared.

LOVE the geese, I bet they want to show Curly up!

Beyond that top four, LSU is No. 5 and ahead of a Florida team it beat by two spots; Georgia is No. 6 and just.04 points ahead of No. 7 Florida; Ohio State follows those three one - loss SEC teams as the highest - ranked unbeaten outside the top four; Oregon State and Oklahoma fall out of the top 10; Louisville can't even get past South Carolina despite an L column goose egg; and Arizona and UCLA both show up again in the final spots of the top 25.

Each year this private game preserve used to be invaded by armies of hunters who, along with shooting the geese, pheasants, deer, et al., shot up her NO HUNTING signs for good measure.

A packed house, fans going bonkers, goose bumps the size of hubcaps and Dick Enberg opening up the New Year's Day telecast with, «Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Rose Bowl, where the Arizona State Sun Devils from the great city of Tempe, Arizona...

Kane has dried up it seems and the golden goose ain't laying anymore eggs.

«I see some of these old people mooning around who have given up,» says Papa Bear, «and I try to give them a little goose.»

Many evenings we wandered on foot 15 or 20 minutes from camp to small potholes or swampy ponds where we would sneak up Indian - style on ducks and geese.

«I remember that as I heard the words my hair stood up on end,» Israel takes pleasure in relating today, «and goose bumps popped up all over my body.»

In April 2004, a game between Rochdale and Scunthorpe United was held up due to Rochdale keeper Neil Edwards needing medical attention after being nipped on the arm while trying to remove a goose from the field of play.

Given the expected rotation of the side, predicting the line - up will likely prove to be a bit of a wild goose chase.

It's a great regret I never got to see a match at Highbury, I feel for John Hartson right now because how Rocky died and what he meant to everyone as a great person really hits home, I still get the goose bumps hearing «It's up for grabs now!»

Reality: You forgot how much goose poop was at the park, but you manage to work up a decent sweat chasing after your little one while yelling, «No, gross, yuck, drop it!»

He / she is going to end up brain damaged anyway, because you were so selfish that you forced formula directly into his / her gut, just like fattening a goose for foie gras!

To break up the waves that cause erosion — and to prevent easy access for geese — workers also added outcrop rock.

You may even find a pool toy that looks like a blown - up golden goose.

These geese waddle up suburban side streets and fly into water fountains.

The newly landscaped island, complete with a scenic waterfall, has become a nesting ground for Canada geese and a vegetarian delight for up to 55 of the birds, according to a report to the Park District Board on Tuesday night.

ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES EXCLUSIVE Armed guards from RGA Investigations have taken up post at the Journal News» Rockland County headquarters BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Guns are good for the goose but NOT for the gander.

• A Steuben County sheep farmer and two others last year for allegedly poisoning two bald eagles and a red - tailed hawk; • A Niagara County farmer who inadvertently killed three juvenile bald eagles in 2014 by putting poisoned meat on his farm in an effort to kill coyotes; • And a farmer in Allegany County who several years ago applied left - over pesticide to a corn field to «use up the product,» killing a pair of bald eagles and nearly three dozen geese.

But as the climate heats up, the geese are wintering farther and farther north.

The government's Environment Agency, which was responsible for drawing up the report, defended its position by saying there was no evidence that the channel would affect Lake Utonai which is home to more than 100 species of waterfowl, including the rare white - fronted goose.

Similarly, the birds vary in their sexual selection with a dominant peacock mating with up to 50 females, compared to the swan goose which pairs monogamously for life.

Some flap their wings up and down, like geese.

In their place, native sedges such as the grass - like bulkuru have sprung up, attracting geese and other birds to feed on them.

No one is quite sure why Dubois threw up a good job to travel half way around the world on what most people would surely have considered a wild goose chase.

Hair follicles attach to tiny muscles that cause your hair to stand up (giving you goose bumps) and trap heat when you're cold.