Sentences with phrase «off of the stick»

Everything from corn dogs and candy bars on sticks, to more uncommon spaghetti and meatballs and mashed potatoes on sticks, Minnesotans love eating off of sticks!

(For the record, that's two tablespoons of butter less than Marcella calls for, but there are eight tablespoons in a stick and I'm not about to go cutting two tablespoons off of another stick and making a gross mess just because I think Marcella Hazan is a god or something.

You would be able to quickly identify Alex Ovechkin and his powerful strides across the ice and the way the puck explodes off of his stick.

Finland defenseman Kimmo Timmonen tried to be slick and shot a broken stick at Ryan Kesler and knocked the puck off of his stick.

They're so much fun to eat — right off of the stick!

While other little fellows his size would play together in their Seattle neighborhood, he used to sit by himself in his yard, peeling the bark off of sticks, fascinated by how it stripped away from the light, pristine wood inside.

After an hour of using the sticks in a few white - knuckle FPS action on «Killzone,» we never felt like our thumbs were going to slip off of the sticks.

If you feel miserable right now, though, taking a step to do something different will at least get you off of the stuck poin»... Read More

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But those who thought Poloz was stuck in a permanent funk were caught off guard by a series of rosier descriptions of the economy.

Such clots, in turn, can break off and get stuck in the narrow blood vessels of the brain, causing a stroke.

If you don't, you won't stick with it,» says Biron, noting that she sees a lot of repeat customers in her classes who somehow fell off the time - management wagon.

Instead of yelling at the guy who cut you off or getting stuck in a blocked - in parking spot, General Motors China says it has a solution: It's called DiDi Plate, and it lets Android users text any car owner by scanning their license plate with their phone's camera and sending it to a cloud ID service.

In 2011 a reported 908,300 workers were stuck at home with work related injuries, costing companies millions of dollars in workers compensation and paid time off.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

That's why it's critical that sales that stick be of the same basic product or service without costly customization, without one - off incentives or add - ons, without a whole lot of handholding, and without spending more to get them than you're ultimately putting in your pocket.

You're better off sticking to a humane schedule that works with your natural rhythms and includes plenty of rest thrown in.

To really make the learning stick — and your investment in human capital pay off — you need to make business education part of your culture.

But then there are the companies that take off and enjoy the kind of hockey - stick like growth others can only dream about.

Moonves is just the latest TV executive to talk out of school about Apple's on - again, off - again plans to fix the TV experience that Tim Cook once described as «stuck in the seventies.»

Atlanta's mayor has told people to stay off the icy roads, but thousands of people are still stuck.

The winner came in overtime off the stick of Patric Hornqvist when a defenseman failed to clear the puck and instead set up Hornqvist for a wide - open shot.

If the carmaker sticks with this creative approach, the temptation will be to send McConaughey tripping off into ever - more esoteric zones of monologue both dazing and confusing for viewers.

T - Mobile, which is majority owned by German carrier Deutsche Telekom, said in the past when it offered a choice to let customers turn off the lower - resolution video while using more of their data allowances, 99 % opted to stick with the lower quality.

Vancouver paid off its debt in 2014 by selling the village's luxury condos, but a recent report by Business in Vancouver shows that taxpayers got stuck covering hundreds of millions of dollars of debt.

But Rob Crooke, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, explained that because the 3D Xpoint memory combines some of the elements of NAND and DRAM, you can have a lot of it (10 times more than current DRAM) and it's non-volatile, which means that when the power goes off the data stored in it will stick around.

Our survey determined that demand for customization falls off precipitously if consumers think they could be stuck with something they don't like — even though early adopters of product customization have found that return rates are lower than for standard products.

I stuck it out in a crazy business that has robbed me of any normal social life (constantly moving around the country), worked my tail off and risked it all and was fortunate enough to be in a good place at the right time and take advantage of an opportunity with every bit of energy I could muster.

If your husband works for an employer with no 401k or no retirement contribution plan, then it looks like he is stuck and can only strive to max out his solo 401k to $ 53,000 based off income of $ 212,000 +.

Still, Lawsky also highlighted positive aspects of the new technology, saying there was room for a thriving industry as long as it stuck to the rules, avoided money laundering, and did not duck regulation off - shore.

But you'd be better off sticking your head in the sand and waiting it out instead of trying to «do something about it.»

i.e. I know I can stick with it in the depths of a crash (not easily, but I can do it) which would give me confidence that I could dispense with the bond element of a portfolio in favour of paying off debt, as you suggest, in your shoes.

Numbers show that, after accounting for the fees on these products, you're way better off sticking with a portfolio of low - cost stocks and bonds.

As most of the investment research suggests, the investor is better off setting an asset allocation, in line with one's age and risk tolerance, and sticking with it.

Today's low interest rates offer you the option of further reducing your monthly payment by sticking with a 30 - year loan OR shaving years off your mortgage by refinancing to a 15 - year.

Well, Andrey is off to Italy and I'm still stuck here in the Great White North, which may be a great place to be but a change of scenery every once in a while might be nice.

BTC violated the line - in - the - sand support zone between $ 9000 and $ 9200 during the latest round of the sell - off, and it remains stuck below that despite the bounce in European trading.

Some get too far off into the dangers of postmodernism, while others are still stuck in the traps of modernism.

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

You'll be glad they use discretion when they let you off with a warning sometime — then maybe you'll take that stick out of your a.s.s.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

Once the shock wore off though, I realized that money abuses and issues, while endemic within churches, still only account for a portion of the many ways in which churches have wounded people and thus there is undoubtedly plenty of people in search of a safe place who do not have any of the same issues that I have with linking money and spirituality, so really you were only excluding a certain portion of people from safety by attaching a price tag to it, those for whom money issues are a sticking point and of course those who simply don't have the extra funds to commit.

The Christmas decorations are wiped off the shelves, and the next day they are replaced with dozens of red hearts, cheery little lovesick bears that say, «I (heart) you,» and more candy than you can poke a stick at.

Thus Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, far from being the cockamamie «Stars Wars» scheme it was promptly dubbed by political adversaries and journalists stuck in the conventional thinking of the era, was the technological expression of the president's moral conviction that nuclear weapons were a grave danger that ought to be taken off - the - board in international public life.

The magnitude of which spun off trilobites which turned into monkey's, which started marking tools out of sticks, and eventually taught themselves how to shave and cure their ancestral scoliosis and turn into humans.

And to top it all off, there was a piece of paper stuck inside the front cover as well.

One thing he said that has stuck with me though, is,» You know there are some sections of heaven that will be walled off to you and me because all these people want to think they are the only ones up there.»

This is why we are stuck to the surface of the Earth instead of being pulled off into the Sun, which has many more times the gravity of the Earth.

In a later scene, Frodo and Sam are struggling towards the cracks of Doom, and Frodo falls off a cliff in the darkness, he is stuck on a ledge, and Sam can not see at all and is unable to help him up.

You're not perfect, you kind of tick me off sometimes but I think I'd like to stick around, to keep doing life together.

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.