Sentences with phrase «like brass rings»

As a hallmark of all our products, great attention has been paid to the smallest details, like brass rings, protective sleeves for zippers and hidden air inlets.

Not exact matches

Like the Cowardly Lion said from the Wizard of OZ «if you stay on the merry - go - round long enough you're bound to catch the brass ring.»

Your team is taking risks just like you — and their reward shouldn't be a mere shot at the brass ring.

Under their trapdoor brass lid buried flushIn marble lay the notes: a shallow tombOf keys that Lazarus - like would ring the chimesAt consecration.

Under their trapdoor brass lid buried flush In marble lay the notes: a shallow tomb Of keys that Lazarus - like would ring the chimes At consecration.

Marius Balchunas's first and only shot at the hyphenate brass ring is a roundelay farce set at a seedy California motel, shot like a television sitcom, and written like a train - wreck.

But it's tantalizing to contemplate how easily the brass ring might have been missed — how close the picture might have come to being just another detective thriller, like the two previous screen versions of Dashiell Hammett's groundbreaking novel (respectively so - so, in 1931, and ludicrous, in 1936).

True, some people manage to get plum jobs, but it is like everywhere: you need to hustle and promote yourself to get a hold of that brass ring.

At that time, gas was relatively cheap and plentiful, but even as the economy improves, we're paying $ 3.45 a gallon for fuel, and at least in high volume vehicles like the Escape, fuel economy is the brass ring manufacturers are striving for.

-- and my skull rang like a brass bowl.

Just like our fear of not hooking the prize brass ring of the carousel, we are afraid that the season will turn around and that the Big Reset Button will itself turn out to be an illusion, that the miracle of hope was just a big story someone made up.

If one is chasing the brass ring of big money rewards and sales championships first and foremost, without first developing the rudimentary knowledge of the industry's ins and outs, as well as one's character, then one is not a professional Realtor, but rather, one is simply a commissioned sales hack, ready to sell anything to anyone for a quick buck, like a Kirby vacuum salesperson selling an expensive unit to a ninety year old (once inside the house via slick answers to objections) who already has two new vacuums in the closet and who can't see and / or who doesn't care about the dust bunnies anyway.