Sentences with phrase «old chestnuts well»

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And before Nashua crossed the line he was preceded by an obscure chestnut named Mielleux, Alfred Vanderbilt's Find, and Wise Margin, a 6 - year - old who up to this point had distinguished himself by doing no better than one third in three starts over at the Fair Grounds.

The criticism here is an old chestnut; the Premier League teams are more difficult, bigger, faster, and better and Lukaku is a «Premier League Proven Player».

Certainly there are enough highly competetive pickup opportunities where Democratic challengers are now running ahead or even that Mark Foley's dramatic embodiment of an old political chestnut could very well prove to be the mistake that costs the GOP control of House.

Much like how revivals / revamps of old Saturday morning chestnuts such as Scooby - Doo and Tom and Jerry fail to recapture the magic and charm of the originals, these songs are forgettable at best.

Whenever I have problems with a movie adaptation of a beloved book, it's not too long before people tell me the old chestnut: The book was better.

gif ball named «BIT» in Tron) and the addled old geezer who's a genius and also the father of the beautiful young love interest — hoary old chestnuts that provide as good an explanation as any for the extent to which Disney has fallen behind animé and even its Pixar affiliates in the realm of animated entertainment.

I thought the indie community had hashed this all out years ago, but here it is again: the old «If you're fast, you can't be good» chestnut, raising its hoary head once again in the form of a clickbait article on HuffPo.

Well, that old chestnut — sell dividends, of course!

Watch out for the «old chestnut» - Will make a good Working dog or Pet.

Thankfully, the game has a huge amount to offer those who'd prefer to stick to smashing up the computer, with NetherRealm once again proving it's the best in the business at that old chestnut: content.

I also realized how well that chestnut wood tone actually complimented a few other details in the space I already had like the bamboo blinds, wicker tray & old wood crates.