Sentences with phrase «hand on a stick»

Driving a manual - shift car in the UK is hard enough for me, but at least I am using my dominant hand on the stick; it must be even worse for righties.

The Yanks» leading goal - getter, Johnny Mayasich of Eveleth, Minn., playing with only one hand on the stick, had suffered a badly bruised shoulder muscle against the Swedes.

After getting a pass from Betz, McDavid pushes the puck up through the neutral zone, one hand on his stick, both legs pumping.

And then there's Welch, the new party member: a recurring series character and item creation expert best known for exposing fraudulent shopkeepers and hitting people with a hand on a stick.

Also I've noticed that on some gears, 2nd and 3rd, without pressing the accelerator pedal the stick is moving forward and backward itself, when I don't have a hand on the stick.

Some will use a fake hand on a stick that they will poke into a dog's food bowl while he's eating.

Not exact matches

It's the idea that by developing strict procedures and guidelines and sticking to them, you will actually benefit from a freedom to focus more clearly on the objective at hand, rather than how you're going to attack it.

It would be hand done, Chaulk explained, by men wearing gloves: a giant game of pick - up sticks, bit by bit, with the family looking on.

If all else fails, the infographic suggests you could also grab your favorite cup of caffeine or chew on a stick of gum as a means to get your mind back on the task in hand.

On the other hand, a pattern of little failures, like a consistently unpleasant customer experience, might have stuck in customers» minds.

On the other hand, any parent who has ever woken a sleeping baby to stick a thermometer in her ear, mouth, or farther south only to log the perfectly healthy temperature of a now awake and screaming child knows that's not an ideal situation, either.

On the other hand, the Fire TV Stick has access to fewer video services — though every one I searched for was available — but can play games and use other apps, like Facebook.

But you also must balance convenience with impact; employees will be more likely to stick with an EVP program and get excited about it if they're doing hands - on activities where the impact is obvious, as opposed to occurring far downstream.

Amazon's remote, on the other hand, also matches the Fire TV Stick's interface: it's simple, modern, and sleek.

Thomas says the brand was driven to offer the technology after finding that despite having plenty of cashiers on hand, customers can still get stuck in lines when stores are busy.

«We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.»

On the other hand, she may have had very reasonable expectations but has been stuck doing grunt work because everyone in the department gives her their unpleasant tasks.

Women, on the other hand, set better goals and meet them 80 or 90 percent of the time, boosting morale and encouraging employees to stick around.

The aircraft features an advanced data link system, HOTAS (Hands On Throttle And Stick) commands, three radios, a latest generation Targeting Pod, and also a sophisticated HMCS (Helmet Mounted Cueing System), that alongside the rest of the aircraft's sensors, allows the pilot to effectively employ the weapon in a matter of seconds.

Should we, like them, be «longpreneurs» who are «focused, not on an exit strategy, but on an exist strategy, a strategy built on sticking around; a strategy not for a buy - out, but for a handing down, a passing along.»

Use this as a hand or stick vacuum cleaner, and when you shop Jet right now you can save 15 % on your first three orders (if they total at least $ 35) with the code «SAVE15» at checkout.

Anyone stuck on a commute with a minor scrape or headache will be grateful to have a few essentials on hand.

In all, 30 «made - in - Kyoto» products are on Tmall Global, such as organic facial - care products, hand - sewn cushions, geisha - themed silk makeup bags and aromatic incense sticks.

On one hand, your Bitcoin will be stuck until a time when the service in question feels it is safe enough to resume providing their services.

The customer support team is on hand 24/7 to ensure users aren't stuck without help since support is only a call, an email or a live chat away.

The negative sentiment in tech stocks right now won't necessarily keep traders from beating each other with a stick to try and get their hands on...

On the other hand, you could get a fentanyl - intensive pinch — in which case you will be found dead soon thereafter with the needle still sticking out of your arm.

Neo-Nazis carried shields, sticks and tiki torches and clashed on more than one occasion with counterprotesters in hand - to - hand combat.

On my third Sunday I approached eight or nine people, one at a time, stuck out my hand to shake theirs and announced «Hi!

Their «Selfie Arm,» which is basically artistic commentary on how ridiculous selfie sticks are, allows users to hold a creepy, realistic looking fake hand while taking selfies.

It shows Washington clasping a walking stick in one hand, with the other reposing on a bundle of fasces (the Roman symbol of republican liberty).

Religion on the other hand is stuck with unchangeable declarations that time and again have been shown to be wrong.

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

... but since you seem to think that God gets angry, and when I look to see how American Christians (that is, Fox News Christians) treat the least of these, my bretheren, then maybe... MAYBE... I'll change my mind about Christians... or I might just stick to that goats - on - the - left - hand story in that Book written by that guy who claims to be Matthew...

This he continued until his hands and arms had become almost tremulous with the strain, and then he devised something else: two leather gloves; and he caused a brazier to fit them all over with sharp - pointed brass tacks, and he used to put them on at night, in order that if he should try while asleep to throw off the hair undergarment, or relieve himself from the gnawings of the vile insects, the tacks might then stick into his body.

I was in the maze again but I was also outside it, looking on, the aptly named joy stick still in my hand.

I guess i'll just stick my hand on this hot gill...» -------------- I saw something similar happen in a woodshop one time.

It's like saying «Hey, no one brought any games to the barbecue, I guess i'll just stick my hand on this hot gill...»

That's the headline on a hit piece at Media Matters for America, which specializes in something that you'd think would take four arms to accomplish — pounding the table with both hands while sticking fingers in both ears.

When I meet someone who identifies himself as Reformed, I make all kinds of assumptions — that he is stuck up, that he thinks Calvin must sit on the right hand of the Father, that he delights in the idea of people being predestined for hell, that he will call me «uninformed» and «unenlightened» when he finds out that I've explored Open Theism.

I could scream at the altar of a church, with a crucifix stuck deep up my asshole, that I fuck Jesus Christ hard through the hand holes and cream on his crown of thorns, and I will never hit the level of blasphemy that's required for someone to pray to god for their family's pet dog to return home.

She, beside me walking with her secret joys, motioned her two gloved hands airborne toward a stick out on the lake beyond the boys, a dark branch balanced at the dam's ledge, in the roar and plunging of that river on whose cascade into noise it seemed to hesitate, poised there at the edge of more.

I put water on my hands and worked it into the dough and it seemed like it would stick with some added flour.

While the oil is heating I form all the patties and line them on a piece of wax paper, wetting my hands after every 2 - 3 patties to help them stick together and not to my hands.

I do it with my hands and spread some vegan margarine on them first to try to reduce the sticking, but it happens.

If you find the dough is sticking to your hands like crazy, you can either flour your hands, or mix some additional flour into the dough to absorb some of the moisture (this would be the better option for these particular cookies as any excess flour on the tops of the cookies from your fingers would be visible after they have baked).

It's also a fantastic idea to have a pack of cute cocktail sticks on hand to make any drink or dessert more festive.

If using marzipan, roll the stick on the bench with your hands until it's the same length as your loaf then put it in the indentation.

Whenever I have portobello or flat mushrooms on hand I always seem to go to my default recipe - marinated in a sweet balsamic dresssing, grilled, and then served any of a number of ways: sliced into chunky strips strewn over a salad, squished between a bun with lots of toppings... When I've found a recipe I love I get it into my head that nothing else I make with that ingredient will be as good and so I stick to the tried and tested.