Sentences with phrase «not keeping up appearances»

So if your teacher was pro-McCain, he may have felt that Bush was an idiot for not keeping up appearances for another year or two until he was out of office.

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And even if you don't see a single tree on your jaunt out of the office, getting away from the need to think about work, keep up appearances, and make small talk with colleagues will make your break hugely more refreshing, Jarrett reports.

It whittles down your spirit, a little at a time, until one day you realize it's not you going to church anymore, but some ghost of you, some cardboard cutout you send out to maintain the status quo, to keep up appearances.

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Not that I don't consider cupcakes acceptable breakfast food, but I need to keep up appearances.

They have to keep up appearances but we haven't heard from Jah's side.

Management should have kept up the appearance that Kane was in their long term plans but offering him several contracts, not overpricing him, and then not waiting until 3:00 pm on trade - deadline day to accept an offer.

Would have been disappointed not to have kept a clean sheet on his 2ooth appearance for the Gunners but he was fouled in the build up to Stephen Quinn's goal.

Still only eighteen, he would surely have made further appearances in the first team squad had an injury picked up in January not kept him out of action since then.

He then netted 11 times in 35 appearances last season and although his goals were not enough to keep the Lancashire club up, his performances have earned him praise.

Many people actually borrow money to keep up appearances when they can't afford a night at the pub at the end of the month.

It's also meant to ensure it doesn't «give the appearance of compromising judicial impartiality and independence (including independence from the political process)» while keeping a judge from taking a position on issues that might ultimately wind up before the courts, he argues in the memo.

It's not to be confused with Living Together Apart, which is usually a temporary phase while a partnership is ending wherein the couple continues to cohabitate to keep up appearances, to maintain finances, or for the well - being of children.

Ageing is just a natural process that might show up at any age and which is reflected not only by the modifications in our body appearance, but more importantly by the internal signs proving a gradual deterioration in our inner body ability to ensure an optimal metabolism and physiology, to keep a strong immune system and consequently to prevent and fight the chain of degenerative chronic diseases, also called age - related diseases.

As much as I would love to keep up the appearance of being perfect, I just can't!

The exclusives may or may not make a shop appearance, so you can keep up with that in the BEGL fan group on Facebook

So many pretty things I kept scrolling up and down to make sureIi didn't miss anything:) Our elf made her appearance yesterday too... my youngest was soooooo happy!

To her left is the Kepps, Bina (Kudrow) and Jerry (Robinson), whose marriage is struggling so bad they don't even bother keeping up the appearance of smiling happiness or tolerable hatred anymore.

The final one, by chance, is saved for Robin Williams» interpretation of a wax sculpture of Teddy Roosevelt that knows it isn't the 26th President of the United States but figures it's best to keep up appearances.

For the sake of keeping up professional appearances, Wolff takes on a job that doesn't involve the mob: He's hired to look for possible embezzlement in an up - and - coming conglomerate that specializes in developing high - tech prostheses.

Through one of those film noir - style coincidences that imply the universe itself has set up against him, the counselor is implicated when the shipment of drugs goes missing, and whether or not he had anything to do with it, the cartel must keep up appearances and handle it.

We're afraid, not because we're wrapped up in the story or the danger that the characters are in, but because Wan and company keep turning the crank on the metaphorical jack - in - the - box, as we hear the eerie music amid the dark environments and we brace ourselves for the sudden appearance of a horrific looking apparition that appears out of nowhere, accompanied by the sound of someone pounding on a piano that sounds to be about 10 times louder than the rest of the audio.

Teachers across the nation report being pressured to fudge grades, pass students who don't deserve it, and accept students into classes they can't keep up in, all because of school evaluation models that use these metrics to keep up appearances for taxpayers.

It's an appearance they must keep up, so as not to break the illusion that they aren't really butlers at a real mansion.

If that urge to spend comes with the need of keeping up appearances, and isn't truly valuable to you, then don't spend.

They take their dangerous dogs into public places, don't manage their dog at the front door, and even allow children to pet their dogs, just so they can keep up the appearance that their dogs are safe.

Puppies aren't neatness freaks like cats, lick - lick - licking themselves until all that swallowed fur URKS up in a slick nasty mess you find barefoot at 3 a.m. Nope, puppies, are less concerned about their own appearance — a game of hose - tag or going for a swim keeps them happy, while cats hate water, go figure!

Though this pup will not shed, you do have to keep up on the trimming if you want to keep up the lamb - like appearance.