Sentences with phrase «limping across the finish line»

The facility was built in 1962 with its most recent major update in 1982, when its then - outdoor rink was enclosed and heated, Hamilton said, adding that with mechanical issues over the year, the more than 50 - year - old building is «limping across the finish line.»

«The governor clearly wants him to have a race to make him spend his money and maybe, best case, be defeated or worst case, limp across the finish line into 2018,» said a long - time Westchester County politico.

Even at an anaemic eighty - five minutes, the film drags somehow, limping across the finish line with an ass rimshot that isn't funny at the beginning of the picture with Hank Azaria and hasn't gotten any funnier by the end of it with Ben Stiller.

We limped across the finish line, and celebrated the end of the year with forty friends and clients, collaborators and competitors in our annual Christmas lunch at the Groucho Club.

After playing the game, I can tell you that the final product has the feel of something that had a chance at the start of the race but was only able to barely limp across the finish line in the end.

But Marchant managed to limp across the finish line, in spite of severe cramping, which she coped with by repeatedly stabbing a safety pin into her contorted and cramping quad muscle.