Sentences with phrase «of a steamroller»

When I post a (merger) arbitrage idea on my blog I often get comments from people that think it's not worth the trouble, that it is picking up pennies in front of a steamroller et cetera.

«I think that there is a bit of a steamroller approach here that is not productive and does not make for good relationships,» Van Bramer added, referring to the de Blasio administration.

Telling a hard - hitting, evocative and mature zombie narrative requires full commitment to the cause; puns, silly outfits, and the ability to create a heavily armoured truck with a turret out of a steamroller, a sedan, and a portable welder all need to stay home.

It leaves us with local knowledge that is powerless against the continuing advance of the steamrollers of modernity.

The casualties of the Steamroller approach are those who get rolled over.

Certainly the breezy, emphatic nature of this defeat of Watford suggests the ending of their record sequence on New Year's Eve has merely refreshed Pep Guardiola's side and made them doubly determined to resume their love of steamrollering opposition.

Given that the only apparent concessions to modernity on the outside are a pair of unfortunate tacked - on LED daytime running lamps and a set of steamroller - sized alloy wheels, you might expect for the G's cabin to be a time capsule, too.

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This exhibit features more than 20 of the steamroller prints created over the past seven years.

Don't pick up nickels in front of a steamroller!

Telling a hard - hitting, evocative and mature zombie narrative requires full commitment to the cause; puns, silly outfits, and the ability to create a heavily armoured truck with a turret out of a steamroller, a sedan, and a portable welder all need to stay home.

Update: In counterattacking on the authorial front, Amazon manages to shoot itself in the foot, fall down a flight of stairs, bounce out the door, roll into the street in front of a steamroller, then to stagger to its feet only to be crushed by a highly rated piano that unfortunately did not quality for free shipping:

Pullman told the Guardian: «From our positions as individual creators, whether of fiction or non-fiction, we authors see a landscape occupied by several large interests, some of them gathering profits in the billions, some of them displaying a questionable attitude to paying tax, some of them colonising the internet with projects whose reach is limitless and whose attitude to creators» rights is roughly that of the steamroller to the ant.

Down trends are where you are picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.

Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller is unwise.

This is causing traders to make riskier bets, which have been likened to «picking up pennies in front of steamrollers.»