Sentences with phrase «old chestnut about»

I'd mention the old chestnut about lipstick and pigs, but I fear that might be too unkind to swine.

Then again, if you had to wait until you were nine or ten to be told the old chestnut about apples and oranges — rather than kindergarten, or lost in the mists of pre-school-days....

One of the tropiest tropes about manga culture in Japan is the old chestnut about salarymen reading manga on the train while commuting.

The film is a stylistically brilliant and relentlessly bleak illustration of the old chestnut about the infernal nature of our more internecine endeavors.

Oh, just that old chestnut about a soldier sent back in time to protect the mother of humanity's savior from futuristic robot assassins.

There's that old chestnut about the motm awards for England, some real top drawer opponents played wasn't there....

Kind off looks lame this old chestnut about a panic buy to appease the fans.

Not exact matches

To delve deeper into the topic, and a little bit away from myself, I began to wonder about the old chestnut; black women and their chronic singledom.

Nominally a romance about two lesbian lepidopterists with a taste for BDSM role play (ah, that old chestnut, straight out of screenwriting 101), Strickland uses that foundation as a jumping off point for an exploration into personal identity, from the perspective of what lovers will do to keep each other happy and fulfill the needs of a partner, both carnally and intellectually, even if those actions run counter to what they may personally enjoy.

About a week ago I got a 7 week old male chi he is super cute, he is chestnut and white with blueish eyes a d a bob tail.

I based a lot of my thinking about this issue, and the way I construct my courses, around that old chestnut of an article by Morris Cohen, «Research Habits of Lawyers» 9 Jurimetrics Journal 183 (1968 - 1969).

Take a look below at some of the typical tricky interview questions you could be asked so that you're ready when interviewers kick off with that old chestnut «What do you know about us?».

What about the old chestnut which we often hold on to and rarely express directly, «Why can't you just be more like me?»

I share this old chestnut with you, as I often muse about why some aspiring salespeople are always so busy that they don't have the time or the will to increase their skill sets.