Sentences with phrase «hanging round their necks»

«Hans Wurst» was a German carnival clown with a leather sausage hung round his neck.

Don't forget that Arsenal have a whole lot of catching up to do on the likes of Chelsea and Man City, while Man United spent twice as much as we did last summer, despite all the debt hanging round their neck.

«You would never describe a child as a Keynesian child, but we all ascribe to this anomaly where religion can be hung round the neck of a child.»

The Tories were miles ahead on economic credibility and leadership, Labour had the SNP thing hanging round their neck and the public thought Miliband was a joke.

They have too much baggage hanging round their necks..

Bruce relates his witness of Thanos» horrifying power and determination to claim the rest of the stones; one of which hangs round the neck of Strange.

The moment the locals cotton on to the fact that they can make money from those sweaty, money - laden tourists with expensive cameras hanging round their necks, they start hanging up racks of t - shirts, tacky trinkets, kinky key rings, cutesy carvings, sexy sculptures, neon paintings, and native costumes — in short, anything tourists will buy.

Not exact matches

Finding himself at Rome in his twenty - ninth year, he fell in with a French gentleman who tried to make a proselyte of him, but who succeeded no farther after two or three conversations than to get him to hang (half jocosely) a religious medal round his neck, and to accept and read a copy of a short prayer to the Virgin.

There are two tough position for the TEAPubs to have hung around their neck going into a round of elections where interest / turnout will be high — Champion for child molestors and blockers of a vote on limiting legislator income and the size of donations (bribes)!

Labour politicians tried to hang this interpretation round her neck.

It may take some time to master the actual tying, but you will feel oh - so - suave when you can hang it loosely round your neck at the end of the night: much more James Bond than school prom.

The Mike Duffy trial is back for round three and, while this albatross was hung firmly around Stephen Harper's neck, its return to the headlines is bound to remind people of Trudeau's promise to radically revamp the Red Chamber.

Tie another length of wool round the neck of the tassel and knot to secure, then hang with fishing wire.