Sentences with phrase «like city slickers»

The new film attempts to import those high spirits into the western genre, but like city slickers at a dude ranch, the filmmakers shoot themselves in the foot again and again.

Not exact matches

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The scenario of hapless city slickers gamely trying to make a go of living in the country is an old classic, from Aesop's fable «The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse» and Shakespeare's As You Like It to Kaufman and Hart's 1940 play George Washington Slept Here and the»60s TV sitcom Green Acres.

I should have known better than to think it was too silly to be real although the ice fishermen we knew in Vermont especially liked pulling the legs of a couple of gullible city slickers from NYC with so many outrageous stories of derring - do, we never knew what to believe.

From slick city streets to unmaintained backwoods trails, wear these to feel like you're walking on clouds during even the longest of hikes.

Looks like I have some city slickers on my hands!

An online dating site called farmersonly promised to steer him clear of city slicker singles and hook him up with potential partners looking for a man just like him, one comfortable in cowboy boots and living life on the land.

The city slicker soon rues the moment he tells a hillbilly, «I like your hat.»

Everything is a bother for poor Kelly, who roils from the single - engine flight into town, sprays clouds of Raid in the air to kill off mosquitos, slaps the genial local sheriff (Brendan Gleeson) twice for hauling a decapitated moose head on their boat, and generally acts like an uptight city slicker.

But in many ways Killing Ground feels more like Deliverance down under, sans the canoe trips down the river and the commentary about class divide and city slicker snobbery.

«City Slickers» seems today like a pretty safe comedy.

At its best, the story (credited to five writers, including screenwriter Meg LeFauve) evokes Jack London, but more often it feels like the proverbial camel — the horse designed by committee — with downright weird choices like a Western - themed midsection featuring Tyrannosaurus ranchers (most notably Sam Elliott) right out of City Slickers.

Today, English Bulldogs have become city slickers, but like their predecessors, they are still very tough dogs.

I like to jokingly call myself a «city slicker who works in national parks.»

In a city like Los Angeles, anyone can throw a rock and hit a slick salesperson with empty promises.

All of this nonsense is overseen by an industry that constantly claims that it can govern itself (on behalf of the public interest) financed by its own in - house actors, of whom there are too many amateurs and of whom there are not enough professionals... on a constantly rotating basis... like a merry - go -» round of city - slicker children constantly jumping onto a fast moving bucking bronco brigade and very soon thereafter being bucked off either by centrifugal G - forces or by too rough a ride... only to have their still warm saddles occupied by others waiting to be hurled off those same said seats like sideways leaping gnomes... after their dues, I mean, ticket prices, have been paid to the operator (Organized Real Estate).