Sentences with phrase «many sharp stick»

The typical performance review system doesn't work because you're demotivating half your population, poking them in the eye with a sharp stick.»

Even if you only sort of tap dance to work that is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

«JRBrown» is not a real sharp stick here.

Not sharp sticks or cars or guns or even carbon dioxide?

I'm sure it has nothing to do with poking de Blasio in the belly with a sharp stick.

Bloomberg himself has made it a point not to criticize his successor, no matter how sharp the stick de Blasio stick sin his eye.

It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

His food philosophy hinges on one concept: «If I were naked on the savanna with a sharp stick, could I eat this?»

If I didn't know better, I'd say he actually likes writing these posts, even if he'd rather poke a sharp stick into his eye than go shopping for clothes!

I'm gonna impale the son - of - a-bitch with a sharp stick through the heart.

Maps to the Stars is not getting any of the sort of attention it deserves, mostly because it pokes fun at Hollywood with a very sharp stick.

Judge Michael Bumgartner, who sentenced Erickson, agreed saying that he was «appalled and ashamed» at the support for Erickson and told him, «What you did was a jab in the eye with a sharp stick to every parent who trusts a teacher.»

Most won't be huge, but as we like to say about small victories around here, «better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.»

And there's nary a reproduction to be found; Say faithfully reimagines many of Castle's pieces using the same materials Castle did — sharp sticks, soot, spit and shoe polish.

Thank you for taking the time and thought to poke a sharp stick into the «groupthink» bubble.

It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs.

I can still picture my father with a sharp stick over hard earth, scratching out Arabic in flowing lines and speaking of the distant Timbuktu.

Some people wanted Apple to give Amazon a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

But in my opinion, there should be room for both: the authors who want to get out there and run a business and handsell their books, and the authors who would rather poke out their eyes with sharp sticks.

Your life has not ended, you are not on fire, and nobody poked you in the eye with a sharp stick.

Not exactly dollar - for - dollar, but it's better than a sharp stick in the eye!

A couple other reasons I like the vest are: (1) it adds a little camouflage to my white Labrador and helps her to blend a little more with the surroundings when we are hunting waterfowl; (2) the chest protector shields my dog from sharp sticks or other debris she might run into in the water or the field; (3) the handle on the back of the vest ensures that I will have a way to help her into the boat after a long, tiresome retrieve.

He was wearing a sharp stick to kill the lion fish with.

Conversely would poking someone in the eye with a sharp stick make them more adverse to your position on a given topic?

Or, as Wally Broecker once said (I think I've got the quote right), the climate system is a capricious beast, and we are pokiing it with sharp sticks.

Our climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with a sharp stick.

Because Roy Spencer would rather poke himself in the eye with a sharp stick than break one of the ten commandments.

Yet he can scarcely be called unconcerned about the issue of climate disruption: it was Broecker who created the image of the climate «beast,» which humanity is now collectively prodding with the «sharp stick» of greenhouse gases.

Rather than poking away with Broecker's «sharp stick,» we might then actually have a crude set of reins for «the climate beast.»

Since his acquittal, Howe has poked a sharp stick at a place where the justice system and the legal profession in Nova Scotia have long been vulnerable.

I had to take the ones out of the bathroom because the family was complaining of being poked in the eye by sharp sticks while brushing their teeth.

(Well, that's a slight exaggeration, but my stomach looks like someone's been playing noughts and crosses on it with a sharp stick.)

Not exact matches

Although it's generally understood they don't like «hockey stick» projections — sales projections that start off pretty level, then make a very quick, sharp, almost 90 - degree turn straight up into the stratosphere — what is it they're looking for that would convince them to invest?

@bringoutyourdead If you want people to quake in sheer terror, make sure your mighty sword is at least a little bigger and sharper than a popsicle stick!

Hopefully they are stuck on how the castrations should be conducted — with or without anesthesia, dull or sharp knife, by a doctor or one of their victims, etc?

This he continued until his hands and arms had become almost tremulous with the strain, and then he devised something else: two leather gloves; and he caused a brazier to fit them all over with sharp - pointed brass tacks, and he used to put them on at night, in order that if he should try while asleep to throw off the hair undergarment, or relieve himself from the gnawings of the vile insects, the tacks might then stick into his body.

He thus secured for himself a most miserable bed; for hard pea - stalks lay in humps under his head, the cross with the sharp nails stuck into his back, his arms were locked fast in bonds, the horsehair undergarment was round his loins, and the cloak too was heavy and the door hard.

Jesus, whose clothes are dipped in blood, has a sharp sword sticking out of his mouth.

The edges of the metal roofing were at about face height for anyone approaching the shack, and if they ducked their head in to get a life jacket or paddle, they had to watch out for the sharp screws sticking through the roof.

These words stuck in me like some sharp and mighty arrow and I began from that time onward to look up what the Scriptures teach about penitence.

Stuff it with «Slim Jim» pepperoni sticks and sharp cheese.

Beth's Best Biscuits: 6 cups King Arthur Unbleached All - Purpose Flour 3/4 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 cup (2 sticks) cold Cabot Salted Butter, cut into pieces 4 ounces Cabot Sharp Cheddar, grated (about 1 cup) 2 cups very cold lowfat (1 %) milk

Bake another 5 minutes until nothing sticks to a sharp knife when inserted into the center of the muffin.

If you think the bottom is really sticking to the surface below, use a nice, sharp spatula to loosen the dough and sprinkle some extra flour on top.

Slice between them with a sharp knife if they're sticking to each other.

1/2 Stick butter 2 Cups Sharp Cheddar, shredded (I use white cheddar) 1 Can Cheddar Cheese soup (I use Campbell's) 1/2 tsp.

You can check if the potatoes are ready by sticking a sharp knife into one of them to see if it's soft or not.

1 3/4 cups all - purpose flour 1/4 -1 / 2 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper 1/4 teaspoon freshly - cracked black pepper 1/2 teaspoon Kosher or sea salt 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, cold, cut into cubes 8 ounces grated extra sharp cheddar cheese 1 teaspoon prepared dijon mustard

4 cups broccoli florets + stems 2 large carrots, match - sticked salt / pepper to taste 8 ounces grated cheddar cheese, we use cabot extra sharp cus it clear states that it's lactose free

TIPS: use skinny asparagus — it's more tender; to peel ginger root before grating, use the back of a spoon and scrape it off rather than use a sharp knife; after grating the ginger, it tends to stick to the grater — to release, hold the grater over the fish and bang the grater against something solid like the side of a pan or dull side of a large chef's knife, and it will spatter haphazardly over the fish, which is what you want.