Sentences with phrase «old expression about»

There is an old expression about «selling the Brooklyn Bridge».

There's an age - old expression about web businesses, to the effect that if they don't charge you for their product or service, then you are the product that is being sold.

Not exact matches

Presumably pulling the same expression as my nine - year - old does when I try to tell him about the cassette version of the Walkman, my friend simply could not comprehend the idea.

But with the widespread failure of the field to come to any agreement about the Bible's own categories of discourse, its special modes of literary expression and intentionality, and especially those social and religious factors that handed the Old Testament over to us, we have simply been thrown back on ourselves and the deeply felt convictions with which we began the process of interpretation.

I won't keep you in suspense about my opinion of this exercise: Mr. Reilly is full of prunes — that's an expression we old folks like to use.

But I do hesitate, worrying that my strong dislike of extremely girly things — a sentiment that I've held since I was about 6 or 7 and rejected all things pink, although I'm fine with skirts and more useful expressions of femininity — might be coloring the choices I make for him until he's old enough to make them himself.

If you're asked about the salary that you'd prefer if the job were offered to you, avoid answering with a number if you can — the old negotiation expression «He who speaks a number first, loses» definitely applies here.

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What first comes to mind as I write about this issue is the old trope about yin and yang, or the expression that opposes attract.

This is the first chance people will get to see you and form an opinion about you, and we all have heard that age old expression that first impressions are the ones that truly matters.

Sure, the 19 year old may be responsible, and the 16 year old may be mature, but the simple fact is that any physical expression of their relationship would be illegal and could send that 19 year old to prison for about five years and have him or her registered as a sex offender for the rest of their lives.

You know the old expression, «If it ain't broke, don't fix it» — that's how I feel about our partnership with iVerse.

In shape resembles the old style of Bull Terrier Muzzle — somewhat pointed Ears — Low set Eyes — Yellow, intelligent, with a bold, somewhat savage expression Edmonds thus confirms van Rooyen's statement in 1912 about bobbet tails.

About Blog Personal style and fashion blog, written by a 23 - year - old Melbourne based blogger intrigued by dressing up and self - expression through clothing, moodboards, fashion and journals.

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It is not even about form versus expression, and it is the postmodern paradox: recycling old forms and old materials need not pine for old ecosystems.

The expression tous les coups sont permis («no holds barred») is as true of Gregor Hildebrandt's Berlin studio as that other old adage about everything in love and war.

I'm an old man now dealing with the consequences of a lifetime smoking habit but I can assure you that my grandmother warned me about the evils of smoking for good health and the expression «coffin nails» predates the 50's.

And all mixed in with some old fashioned dogma about «climate change» and «global warming», two deliberately sloppy expressions which can be morphed and shuffled about at one's convenience.

This question is age - old, but is particularly relevant today given the frequency of disputes about off - duty internet expression.

Some of this advantage was rooted in moral analysis about shame and blame assigned to unmarried parents, in a construct from another era, regarding children born «out of wedlock», an old - fashioned and now seldom used expression.

About Blog Personal style and fashion blog, written by a 23 - year - old Melbourne based blogger intrigued by dressing up and self - expression through clothing, moodboards, fashion and journals.

About Blog We are a unique local expression of the Episcopal Church — a faith as old as Christianity but particularly American in its origins.

Primary school aged kids (6 — 12 year olds) Talk with your child about ways to show empathy such as: listening; opening - up and sharing with others; using physical affection (if appropriate); noticing the feelings, expressions and actions of others; not making judgements; and offering help to others.

It is ALL about that old expression: the meeting of the minds.