Sentences with phrase «like hitting a home»

Looks like I hit a home run.

«It is almost like hitting home runs.

Not exact matches

Since five years ago when it started, the Great Recession has hit the United States like a hurricane, erasing trillions of dollars of wealth, destroying more than 8 million jobs and eroding value from tens of thousands of homes.

The home seller's dream typically goes like this: A buyer appears the day the house hits the market, an above - price offer is made and the ensuing transaction goes smoothly.

This hits home with most people like myself!

Something that really hit home for me in the book is you said something like, «Personal finance writers believe that if people would just listen carefully to our advice, everything would be fine.»

Heads rolled in the federal sponsorship scandal, and politics is better for it Dinner parties with foreign billionaires, charter flights, private islands, selfies with Bono and Kevin Spacey — it might sound like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, but to Canadians it hits a bit too close to home, or rather a bit too -LSB-...]

Your point about Enron, Tower, Hollywood, etc. really hits home & that's why most of my free cash flow (since my nut is covered already) goes towards buying stuff you can touch & see like real companies or real estate.

CBS, home of broad - based hits like «NCIS» and «Big Bang Theory,» is exploring a tie - up with Viacom, which owns Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, as well as Paramount studios.

Just like we saw with existing home sales this week, median home prices hit a new all - time high.

Like other Puerto Ricans far from home, Alanna Farrell Colon, a Johns Hopkins University sophomore, felt helpless when Hurricane Maria hit the island.

I wasn't thinking about it like that when I posted it, but your comment hits home.

Like the show, the stories are hit or miss, and if you like Keillor, or the man Keillor is in many of his stories (whether in print or on the air), you'll appreciate even the misses, because even when the right word doesn't quite come, or when the timing is just a shade off, the tone usually survives — something lingers in the air, making us feel at home, comfortable, happy to be hLike the show, the stories are hit or miss, and if you like Keillor, or the man Keillor is in many of his stories (whether in print or on the air), you'll appreciate even the misses, because even when the right word doesn't quite come, or when the timing is just a shade off, the tone usually survives — something lingers in the air, making us feel at home, comfortable, happy to be hlike Keillor, or the man Keillor is in many of his stories (whether in print or on the air), you'll appreciate even the misses, because even when the right word doesn't quite come, or when the timing is just a shade off, the tone usually survives — something lingers in the air, making us feel at home, comfortable, happy to be here.

Because Hayes himself understands firsthand what it's like to be impaired with medical debt, as he was hit by a car at 17 years old and spent 12 days in the ICU, this hit close to home for him.

She didn't realize I've been reading you for about three or four years starting in college and that when I went home to visit her I was testing out your recipes in her kitchen (many of them like the squash quesadillas and beer and cheddar bread were big hits) Thank you for this website and I'm looking forward to the book!

Sometimes, I just don't feel like chewing and it usually hits when my husband isn't home and I don't have to cook for him.

While chicken fingers are still a big hit at parties, these days I like to mix it up a bit when entertaining at home.

Even though my Kale & Caramelized Onion Sweet Potato recipe was a huge hit at home, I really don't like to make the same recipe for dinner twice in the same month!

Like yesterday, I was looking through my Bloglovin on the way home from work and the way the two feature images just hit it made me think of something cool and delicious to make.

This plays directly into their stated goal of creating a «home - like» experience for all of their guests, for which they do hit the mark.

Now, I use a glass jug like this one: http://amzn.to/VMFrCJ (Sometimes they're available at Home Goods, too, but it's hit or miss)

Then it hit me, duh Tanya, you can make this at home... it has like 5 ingredients.

And Markakis hit three home runs in 686 plate appearances last year, which seems like a glitch that would get fixed with a software update.

To avoid them for 43 innings in a row is a combination of skill and good fortune, like a slugger hitting a home run in four straight plate appearances.

Kansas City defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham says this of Thomas's history of inconsistency: «In the past, I think he was like the home run hitter who says, «I'm not bunting, I'm not hitting singles.»

Gabrielson is built more like a full - grown Kodiak than a cub and hit some impressive drives in spring training, yet his home run totals in five years as a pro are not noteworthy.

I can't even imagine what I'd do if I could hit home runs like this when I was 20.

You think the cops will be like,» It's cool, you didn't hit him, so it's alright, you can go home now» I mean come on, Cruz and Bisping are just the worst, bring in people who knows what they are watching.

Which is why it's perfectly fine to believe something like, «If Giancarlo Stanton hits 62 home runs, that will impress me more than when Barry Bonds hit 73.»

And if teams are wrong — if the import business brings more Ariel Prietos than Hideo Nomos — baseball, already suffering from a lost generation of good young pitchers, will continue to look more like the All - Star Game's home - run - hitting contest on a daily basis.

Phil Rizzuto, the Yankee broadcaster, had a quasi-opportunity, much like Hamilton's, to prepare for Roger Maris's 61st home run, which was a strong possibility though hit on the last day of the 1961 season.

The Home Run Derby is as good as an exhibition before an exhibition can get — and while it's fun to watch players like Fielder and Ortiz hit 500 - footers, there should always be a spot for a totally random player just to amuse us in subsequent decades.

I felt like I could hit three inside - the - park home runs.

He doesn't do it quite often, but that day, you could see the intent to do it in Giroud, like the Everton home game where he spins and hits the bar with the ball from 30 yards out.

Even if he hadn't hit the post, though, it looked like Navas had it covered, and when Ronaldo hammered his shot home, that was that for Atlético.

I never liked Lawrence Phillips's shenanigans when he was at Nebraska and with the St. Louis Rams, but when the Miami Dolphins signed him last year, it hit home, literally.

Think he liked messing with us more than hitting home runs (laughs).

Although my loyalty never wavered, it was 2006 that brought me back into «rabid» status, and like others I've read on here, I bought a Verlander jersey and screamed in silence (my 2yo son was sleeping) when Mags hit that home run putting us in the World Series.

Overall, May played 12 big - league seasons and hit.251 /.318 /.375 with 96 home runs; that might not seem like much now, but in that lower - offense era his OPS + was a near - league - average 98.

he is basically a 2 down linebacker who is a good tackler and likes to hit; seems like he could find a home on special teams and in a base defense.

If the hitter stood on home plate and pantomimed sexual activities for a full minute — I'm thinking like this, which probably isn't safe for work — there wouldn't be a chorus of people saying, «OH, WHAT, A PLAYER CA N'T HAVE FUN AFTER HITTING A HOMER?»

Carlos Gomez hit a triple on Sunday afternoon and then watched his hit like it was a home run, flipping his...

I enjoy watching major league baseball on TV because I know the stories and statistics so that when something unusual happens — like Denard Span hitting a 425 - foot home run — it's pretty exciting.

His best years are likely behind him, like when «Ross the Merciless» hit 21 home runs in 2006 on the Cincinnati Reds, but he's a veteran presence and, unlike most backup catchers, not a liability with the bat.

Like the Giants, the Tigers had easygoing managers who refused to crack the whip and demand game - winning hits and instead let their «sluggers» aim for club home run records.

Sagna went on a great run chasing a ball that looked like it was going out of play and sped towards the Blackburn goal, he found Fabregas in the middle whose shot hit Walcott and rebounded into the path of the «onrushing» Arshavin and the russian slotted it neatly home.

Mark my words, we will win nothing this year, it's not out of spite but reality hits home in matches like this, even arsene wenger looked absolutely crest fallen.

However, Rovers are seriously exposed away from home — losing six of eight in 2011 and having won just three of their eighteen away matches all season — whereas Wolves have taken the vast majority of their points at Molineux, where they've beaten the likes of Chelsea and Manchester United this season and have lost only two of eight in 2011, and they really have hit a purple patch.

Now it would be folly to assume at this point that this level of performance will definitely continue for the whole campaign; as much as we'd like them to, the Reds won't hit double figures for shots on target for every single home game this season, as they have so far.

In part 2 of this two - part series, James discusses exactly what to do when your children get in trouble for fighting at school or at home — and the right kinds of consequences to give them so they learn to use appropriate behavior instead of lashing out when they feel like hitting someone the next time.