Sentences with phrase «handed on a silver platter»

both were handed on a silver platter.

In a new article, researchers from Aarhus University describe how the waste left by ants on plant leaves serves as a valuable fertiliser for the plants — handed on a silver platter.

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To update, a first - class Korean Air passenger was none too happy when she was handed her nuts in a bag, rather than on a silver platter.

Frankly, this woman has been handed life on a silver platter compared to what I have suffered, and she knows it.

Or forget all that research and let the Christian Coalition hand it to you on a silver platter.

There are enough people looking for a reason to take religious organizations» non-profit status from them as it is, but to deliberately «bait the bear» by purposely speaking about a politically charged subject, such as the health care law, is to hand it over on a silver platter.

We fail to win the PL when it's handed to us on a silver platter, TWICE in 2013 and 2016.

We will have won not because we were handed shit on a silver platter, we will not have cheated small market teams.

A couple defensive lapses and solid play by Piatti handed the visitors the narrow win on a silver platter.

The book was not handed to us on a silver platter, Cortney Heimerl and I had to put together a very formal proposal that was then approved and put into a very tight production schedule for it to be released this fall.

They get so spoiled and just seem to not really appreciate anything and come to just expect everything handed to them on a silver platter, but the world is not like that, as they will soon find out.

In Tea Party activists and in angry voters electing or putting on the ballot, excuse me, in primaries, people like Christine O'Donnell in Delaware — does that create a situation where the Republican Party in a general election is so out of the mainstream, is so filled with candidates who are so crazy that the party actually ends up blowing an incredible opportunity that's been handed to them on a silver platter and fails to capitalize in a significant way on the intense voter dissatisfaction?

According to him, the defeat of the party was self - inflicted and that victory was handed over to the NPP on a silver platter.

Kofi Ghana as he is popularly called, in an interview with the morning show host on Accra - based Rainbow Radio, Kwame Tutu said, it would be a waste of time for the NPP to embark on serious campaigns when the NDC and the EC are planning to hand over victory to President Mahama on a silver platter.

You can't be independent from the people who handed you your job — on a (Shelly) Silver platter!»

They both of records of experience to run on, and have not been handed success on a silver platter.

Earlier this week, the New Jersey Supreme Court handed the Republicans a nicely wrapped gift on a silver platter - an admirable but incredibly poorly timed decision on equality for gay couples.

To avoid feeling like you're hitting a glass ceiling, take control of your own destiny rather than waiting for someone to hand you a promotion on a silver platter.

When what you're being called to do is what is needed for the highest good of all beings, the Universe will bend over backwards to hand you whatever you need on a silver platter.

It is like being handed a tool to connect you with potential matches on a silver platter.

but that doesn't always mean we deserve everything handed to us on a silver platter.

From his opening salvo, our anti-hero explains his uncannily familiar origins — at eight days old, sent to Earth by his parents from their dying galaxy, and the blue, large - craniumed baby grows up in the shadow of a square - jawed, smug git who is universally beloved, can fly, and has life handed to him on a silver platter.

Even when he hands James Franco redemption on a silver platter, the auteur behind The Room just can't get the full - blown Hollywood experience he deserves.

Happily - ever - afters are not handed out on silver platters.

The Book Standard has published an article about another new trend: journalists who write books and then have book promotion opportunities handed to them on a silver platter via «serious» news venues that may well ignore other authors who are not as well connected.

Despite all the pleading from her wealthy friends and family, Josephine Montfort finds it hard to be content with everything being handed to her on a silver platter.

It was practically handed to me on a silver platter by my mentor and boss, Liz Claiborne.

Did you work and hustle to get where you are, or did you have it handed to you on a silver platter?

To get relief, students must take action — it won't be handed to them on a silver platter, at least not yet.

And boy is Pillars of Eternity happy for you to get your ass handed to you on a silver platter.

Sadly Watch Dogs is yet another Ubisoft open - world game that is incapable of allowing players to explore and discover its many diversions on their own, instead almost every piece of content is simply handed to you on a silver platter, removing any need to ever set out on your own.

People panic because no one wants to do the work and wants everything handed to them on a silver platter with minimal effort.

Accuracy and a decent speed are rewarded with a tough - to - hit pitch, while inaccurate stick movement can result in wild pitches or baseballs handed to batters on a silver platter, just ripe for the long ball.

I found that there are truly some good players out there that handed my ass to be on a silver platter.

Anything else ends up in you having your arse handed to you on a silver platter.

They allowed us to experience an age of gaming where everything wasn't handed to us on a silver platter.

While Kratos can dispatch the game's varied line - up of horned, fanged, and winged beasties however he pleases, his arsenal of cool tricks isn't handed to the player on a silver platter.

But when increasing numbers of the public become aware of how NY state AG Schneiderman and Al Gore handed their heads on a silver platter two weeks ago to investigators, journalists, and wavering global warming believers, the more likely this entire witch hunt collapses.

This is a tip handed to you on a silver platter.

As a law student, Westlaw and Lexis are virtually handed to you on a silver platter.

Man, some people expect things to just be handed to them on a silver platter, or a paper plate that is equally as unaffordable.

But don't expect the best, most lucrative deals to be handed to you on a silver platter.

We know that the perfect 6 - figure career won't be handed to us on a silver platter — and they're definitely not listed on any job boards.

They won't hand you a job on a silver platter, but they can set you up to be in a better position to land one yourself with a little hard work and preparation.

It's your job as the job seeker to hand them — on a silver platter, no less — precisely what they need to see (and nothing more!)

By our human and natural parental instinct, we feel a need to coddle our children and hand them life on a silver platter, or feed them from the proverbial silver spoon.

People with character as the backstop to their personalities don't expect anything and everything of value to be handed to them on a silver platter, for free.

Life doesn't always hand us our dreams on a silver platter, but with a little creative energy we can imagine life to be just about anything we want it to be.

PW cookbook handed on the proverbial silver platter (I swoon) AND you can just head over to Anthropologie — ohhhhh I am green.

That feeling of contentment is not something that is always handed to us on life's silver platter of gifts.